The Federal Communications Commission is finalizing plans to link the telephone number 988 to the National Suicide Prevention Hotline. It’s just the third three-digit nationwide phone number, after 311 and 911, and supporters of the move say it will direct people in crisis to trained mental health professionals — rather than police. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. suicide rates are highest among veterans — more than 20 of whom die by suicide each day — while LGBTQ youth report they’re three times more likely than other young people to contemplate suicide.