The website carries contact details for charities

Chooselife Highland hopes it will provide support to people who feel uncomfortable asking for help in a face-to-face situation.

The site is being unveiled at the first meeting of a national working group on suicide in remote and rural Scotland.

The meeting in Inverness involves bodies such as the NHS.

Chooselife Highland co-ordinator, Angela Fisher, said that to the organisation's knowledge there was nothing similar to its website.

She said: "For young people, particularly men, the internet is their medium. We needed to find a way of accessing them.

CHOOSELIFE FACTS In 2002, the Scottish Executive launched Chooselife, a 10-year strategy and action plan to reduce suicide in Scotland An additional �200,000 over two years (2006 - 2008) was awarded to Chooselife Highland to focus on the problem of suicide in remote and rural areas Thursday's meeting in Inverness aims to share information and ideas for how to reach out to people who are feeling depressed and suicidal in remote and rural Scotland

"Just talking about suicide and listening to someone who is having suicidal thoughts can save a life.

"However, for someone in a remote or rural area they may be isolated or they may not want a neighbour knowing how they are feeling."

The website carries contact numbers for Breathing Space, NHS 24, The Samaritans and Childline.

A section called Suicide Crisis Point is an online activity aimed at dealing with suicidal feelings, who to seek help from, and stopping the process of planning suicide.

Chooselife Highland believe the site's potential is huge and could eventually offer a forum for people to talk to others in similar situations and, by using video links, access mental health nurses and services based far from their remote communities.

Anni Stonebridge, from Mackay Ross International, which was been commissioned to create the site, said: "We wanted something that was really easy and quick to use so that as many people as possible can benefit."