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Help support suicide prevention efforts at the state level. Edwin Shneidman, the doctor who was the first head of the Center for the Study of Suicide Prevention at the National Institute of Mental Health passed away today. His obituary in the Times is a reminder of how far we've come in developing an infrastructure to support people who need help.
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Why is it automatically assumed that a person who commits or attempts to commit suicide has something wrong with him? He must be psychotic, depressed, schizophrenic, etc. While this may be true in some instances, it doesn't necessarily apply in other instances. Sometimes suicide is a perfectly rational solution.
Ed C. Posted Friday, May 22, 2009 1:56 PM