Live for Your Luke
A Suicide Awareness and Suicide Prevention Charity Created
for Saving Your Luke
Run with Us September 21, 2024
Our Story
Live 4 Your Luke
The Live 4 Your Luke Foundation was created in 2020 by Luke’s mother, Jill, following his death by suicide.
The foundation seeks to spread awareness of suicide in hopes of finding the Lukes in our lives, and bringing a stop to suicide.
Lucas Kitchen was born the second child and second son on July 23, 1988 in Provo, Utah. Instead of outwardly conquering the world, Lucas was quietly observing and finding ways to lift others.
During his short, 33 years of life, Lucas served in countless ways. One of the most memorable was in the winter of 2016 when he…
Anyone Could be Struggling with Suicide.
The Centers for Disease Control has gathered eye opening statistics.
In 2019,
47,511
Americans died by
Suicide.
This is an
average of
130
suicides per day.
Making Suicide the
10th
leading cause of death
in the United States
You don’t need to be a doctor, or a psychologist, or a therapist to say the right words to someone. It can literally be one word, one sentence, and it just…it just clicks.
– Halima Shegow