Suicide. Just say the word, and conversation halts. It’s perhaps the last taboo. It’s also sudden. Tragic. Violent. But preventable? And that in claiming 31,655 lives in 2002, suicide is a ...
Monthly Archives: May 2005
Clinician risk
How much should clinicians do to protect suicidal patients – and themselves? After reading Waking Up: Climbing Through the Darkness, by suicide attempt survivor Terry Wise, clinician and ...
Thomas Joiner
Why people die by suicide When he was only 39 years old, suicide researcher and survivor Thomas E. Joiner, PhD attained significant success in a brief 10-year career. He is a recipient of the ...
States seeking services
Moving from planning to action in suicide prevention is no easy task. Yet Mike Hogan would like to pick up the pace. “We’re stuck. It’s like we’re in a car and we’re going 35 miles per hour,” ...
Judy Collins on loss
Dispersing stigma American folk singer Judy Collins is dispelling the stigma of suicide through song, speaking engagements and inscribing the story of her only son’s self-inflicted death. Her ...