It's not the kind of thing you'd expect to see in the middle of a mall, which made it the perfect place to hold a forum on suicide prevention, since suicide is more often than not, something you never expect.
"Suicide is hiding. It's hiding," said Barbara Garrison, who organized the event for a topic that the word stigma was created for. Case in point, there really wasn't any foot traffic in the time we were there to the various tables. An occasional person would listen from the second floor, or passing by, a testament to suicide's aura of uneasiness.
"Don't just sit around like you don't see anything going on," she said.
A message echoed by the three women sitting at the table above pictures of Adam, Chelsea, and Tyler.
"We never though we would be standing here as moms fighting suicide," said Robin.
All three of them know the pain and now work for prevention.
"You know we talk to the kids about our stories and our kids, about things that they were going through," she said.
The signs can be extremely varied, including no obvious signs. Making the simple act of asking the question one of the most important thing to do.
"Ask them, are you thinking about taking your life? You have to be able to say that. You have to be able to ask them are you suicidal?" she said.
Because if you don't, and they are, the questions will just begin.
"It always crosses your mind, when you run on a suicide, uh, what their last thoughts were," said an EMSA paramedic.
