Lives may be saved if those in contact with students are alert to suicide risk indicators & can provide emotional “first-aid”, states Dr. Gunn, in this article from the January 1978 issue of the JOURNAL OF HOME ECONOMICS. Home economists are in a unique position to bring the once taboo subject of suicide out in the open, she states, because they work informally & often intimately with students & their families. 12 ref. (NBB)