Send Silence Packing at Virginia Tech

Suicide claims the lives of more than 1,100 college students each year, and each one of those deaths touches us all.

Send Silence Packing is an exhibit of 1,100 backpacks representing the number of college student lives lost to suicide each year. Active Minds Inc. has collected and continues to collect backpacks and personal stories in memory or in honor of loved ones impacted by suicide. By displaying backpacks with personal stories of loved ones that put a face' to lives lost to suicide, Send Silence Packing carries the message that preventing suicide is not just about lowering statistics, but also about saving the lives of students, daughters, sons, brothers, sisters and friends across the nation. Contributions serve as a meaningful outlet for survivors' grief as well as a powerful way to raise awareness and work towards suicide prevention.

This slideshow features our Send Silence Packing display at Virginia Tech on October 13, 2009. For more information about Active Minds Inc. please visit www.activeminds.org

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