I am saddened by another suicide loss this morning. I am grateful to CNN for not posting the details of his suicide. Thank you for putting the individual and his family above your ratings. Anthony Bourdain and his family are in our thoughts and prayers. As we have lost two great celebrities, we must also [...]
On April 19th we rushed to the Arizona State Senate building. A friend called and said we were in trouble. We had been fighting to ensure that every school district in the State would be required to provide training in suicide prevention to their teachers and other school personnel who work with our students. Senate [...]
Losing a loved one to suicide is often confusing and surreal. A great deal of energy is expended churning through a whirlpool of questions - especially the whys. I’ve heard it countless times from other survivors of suicide loss – why did my loved one do this when they were the first in line [...]
In 1972 Neil Diamond sang it in Song Sung Blue: “me and you are subject to the blues now and then” … four and a half decades later it is time to bring depression out of the shadows, “We simply got no choice” I recently saw a stat put out by AFSP.org (America Foundation for [...]
