08/09/2025
This September, as the world acknowledges Month, let us confront a deeper truth: awareness alone is not enough.
People don’t choose to disappear because the word “suicide” is unfamiliar.
They disappear because they believe no one sees them.
They disappear because saying “I’m not okay” feels like too much to carry.
This year, I invite one million voices to unite on Loss Awareness Day, September 29—a sacred acknowledgment inspired by in memory of her beloved son Ben, and brought to life in collaboration with Michele Bell, ®, after Lisa Marie reached out following their shared journeys through grief.
From that tender outreach, this petition was born—not as an abstract concept, but as a living embodiment of recognition, empathy, and resolve.
The petition lives on Change.org. It’s more than a call to sign—it is a call to witness, to stand, and to honor the profound reality of grief as part of the human condition:
“Loss is not just death—it is the end of relationships, the loss of identity, the collapse of stability… This day is about more than remembrance; it’s about acknowledgment.”
Our shared hope is to deliver these voices to Washington—to affirm that grief demands neither pity nor passivity, but recognition and space.
In a society that too often silences suffering:
• Say you care.
• Reach across the divide of isolation.
• If you carry grief yourself, carry it alongside others who care.
You don’t need to mend another’s fracture—just being present, again and again, may be the slender thread that keeps them tethered to life.
Sometimes, the most potent proof of belonging is the unremarked presence of someone who simply stays.
This September, let us weave compassion into awareness. Let us stand, fully alive, as living proof that others matter.
— September 29
Where healing is born not from grand gestures, but from the quiet empathy of being seen.
https://www.change.org/p/lisa-marie-presley-the-catalyst-for-loss-awareness-day/u/33152308
