In Oregon, older adults are the most likely to die by suicide, but prevention efforts remain scarce

At Sherwood’s Marjorie Stewart Senior Community Center, a group of six to eight elderly people gather every Thursday in a room filled with knitting magazines and books.

In addition to creating crafts like coloring turkey outlines or pom-pom snowmen, they converse about insurance issues while seated around a square table. regarding dying. regarding cremation. and occasionally regarding suicide.

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