Survivors of Suicide Loss Day Virtual Panel

Join us on Saturday, November 23 for 49to51’s First Virtual Survivor Day Panel, hosted by SAAFC in collaboration with Swayam Foundation and KathASK Films. 49to51 is a dedicated space for conversations around survivors of suicide loss, highlighting the underrepresented within the underrepresented. Suicide prevention efforts have three components – prevention, intervention, and postvention; yet most often, the missing component is postvention, or dedicated visibility and support for the ones left behind.

Grief is a universal experience, and survivors of suicide loss go through a complex and traumatic form of grief shrouded in stigma, guilt, and isolation. Peer support is a basic need of human existence – and along with first responders, physical and mental health providers, spiritual leaders, funeral directors, and other professionals, 49to51 aims to bring in families, friends, and coworkers into this space where these conversations are normalized; where survivors have a choice of privacy over secrecy, and where their path to healing doesn’t have to be so isolating. International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day, or Survivor Day, is observed each year on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.

To commemorate this day and the one-year anniversary of 49to51, we at SAAFC invite you to join a powerful conversation with an international panel of South Asian survivors of suicide loss. The panel will be moderated by Shrinkhla Sahai from Swayam Foundation, India, Sonalee Joshi, PhD, from SAAFC, and Ambalika Khadria, PhD from KathASK Films.