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New York Times Article

Thank you for sharing...

I'm so glad that New York Times printed this story.

A story of a man at one time was on top of his life but when life threw in too many twists and turns... Depression took control and ended up taking his life.

:Sigh:
Abbie

An Australian article....

I hope it's OK to post an article here that's not from the New York Times.

This was in my local newspaper recently and tells the story of one of our senators who recently attempted suicide. This is her story, as she tells it.

http://www.themercury.com.au/article...r-stories.html

Exerpt from The Healing of Sorrow by Norman Vincent Peale

(Alffe) I'm so proud to know you. Good job, and clearly "from the *heart."

http://www.morethansad.org/

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Alffe, I watched the video clip -- thirty years ago, how many people would have understood that "depression is an illness?" Thank you for your posts,
reyn

Excellent link Alffeee, thank you!

A very consice, matter-of-fact document which speaks the truth about suicide and depression.

:hug:

She's a victim too just like all of his other targets.

http://www.stopasuicide.org/

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unbelievable! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Alffe, I'm tempted to send this to our minister.

He's going through a lot of stuff right now... I can see it coming out in anger then guilt turned towards himself...

As a result of witnessing some very complicated drama (which is draining me of my energies) I'm backing off - and have decided not to attend church. To take care of ME - I will go there and do my 20 hour secretary job.

Thankfully life's lessons have taught me I can't change them...

I hope our minister can see his way through this.

What an odious person he is. I hope he's prosecuted to the full extent of the law! And that wouldn't be enough for him!

NEW YORK (AP) — Some suicide prevention groups aren't laughing over a scene in "The Office" where Steve Carell's character tries to scare young children by struggling in a hangman's noose.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and other mental health organizations say NBC and other entertainers should stop using suicide as a punchline. They worry that depiction of a method of suicide might encourage mentally ill people to take their own lives.

"We try not to be zealots about this," said Robert Gebbia, the foundation's executive director. "But this one ... kind of crossed the line."

A spokeswoman for NBC's entertainment division did not have an immediate comment.

There's been a run of television shows that have inflamed sensibilities lately. The Parents Television Council has urged affiliates of the CW network not to air a Nov. 9 episode of "Gossip Girl" following on-air promos for a sexual threesome. Some religious groups were angered by an episode of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm" where a drop of Larry David's urine is splattered on a portrait of Jesus Christ.

"The Office" Halloween episode last Thursday opened with the paper company hosting a haunted house for young children. Carell's socially clueless office manager Michael Scott promises a scare, and pops out with his depiction of a hanging.

Afterward, Scott speaks like an exaggerated public service announcement: "Kids, just remember, suicide is not the answer. It is the easy way out."

Gebbia said it's impossible to imagine a death due to breast cancer, for example, being used as a joke. He said he wants entertainers to be aware of the impact of their work.

Mental Health America, the National Alliance on Mental Illness and Suicide Awareness Voices in Education are other organizations that joined Gebbia's group in calling for sensitivity. They said research has shown that explicit depictions of suicide may prompt vulnerable people to copy the act.

Two years ago, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention protested a General Motors commercial that showed a robot leaping off a bridge, and a Volkswagen ad with a man standing on a ledge threatening to jump.

"We're not trying to be censors or fall into the trap of wanting everything to be PC, politically correct," Gebbia said. "But on the other hand, it's offensive to some people who have lost relatives to suicide by hanging."

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NBC is a unit of General Electric Co.

The real life human drama of suicide and even threesomes is part of our society.

I believe that if they are going to be "allowed" on tv, they should be storylines ......... NOT punchlines.

I just don't know what the answer is... or how to fix it...

http://podcast.com/show/5266/

Click on Help for America's Veterans to listen to this live. :(

http://www.contracostatimes.com/science/ci_13636677

I was listening to NPR this morning talking about cluster suicides...found this online story. :(

And I'm unable yet, to link todays editorial page "cartoon" about soldier suicides...but will keep trying.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alffe (Post 595020)

With a little help from their website, here is Koterba's political "cartoon".

Our paper carried it on a much later date.

http://www.cagle.com/working/091118/koterba.jpg

"Tomb Of Their Unknown Pain
--Soldiers' Suicides--"

This is heartbreaking. I will try to find something online to enable me to reach out and try to help, in whatever way that I can.