Suicide Antidepressant 09/10/2006 Michigan Man Kills Himself While on Antidepressants
 
 Summary:<br><br><div>Paragraph 6 reads: &quot;He said he&#39;s also learned about warning signs; his wife&#39;s father, for instance,<strong> who was on antidepressants,</strong> tried to check himself into a Hastings-area hospital<strong> the day he killed himself, b</strong>ut Hank said he was not admitted.&quot; <br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1160062034252090.xml&amp;coll=7">http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1160062034252090.xml&amp;coll=7</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h1><strong>Poker tournament to raise money for suicide awareness</strong></h1>Thursday, October 05, 2006 <br />By Stephanie Esters<br /><strong>se@kalamazoogazette.com 388-8554</strong> <br /><br />A Kalamazoo couple touched by suicide are planning a poker tournament Saturday to raise money for the ``Out of the Darkness Overnight&#39;&#39; suicide-awareness walk in New York City in June. <br /><br />Hank and Sarah Avink are hosting the poker tournament at the Masonic Lodge, 4371 W. U Ave., in Schoolcraft. Registration starts at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, with play starting at 5:30 p.m. The entry fee is $50. <br /><br />This is the Avinks&#39; second tournament. The couple raised $1,000 from the first poker tournament, in March, for the ``Out of the Darkness Overnight&#39;&#39; suicide-awareness walk in San Francisco in June, Sarah Avink said.&nbsp; <br /><br />Hank Avink said his wife has helped him ``see it as a disease.&#39;&#39; <br /><br />``My wife&#39;s father committed suicide when she was 6, so it&#39;s obviously close to our heart. And I actually grew up in the funeral home, seeing a lot of it myself,&#39;&#39; Hank Avink said. ``Almost everyone we know has been affected by it, but nobody talks about it.&#39;&#39; <br /><br />He said he&#39;s also learned about warning signs; his wife&#39;s father, for instance, who was on antidepressants, tried to check himself into a Hastings-area hospital the day he killed himself, but Hank said he was not admitted. <br /><br />For information about the poker tournament, call 217-3016. <br /><br />For information about the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention&#39;s ``Out of the Darkness Overnight&#39;&#39; walk, visit <a href="http://www.theovernight.org/">www.theovernight.org</a> or <a href="http://www.afsp.org/">www.afsp.org</a>. <br /></div> 
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