Alaska Edition | Talking about suicide in the media
submitted by alaskapublic
on 11/09/15
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Many conversations about suicide only focus on prevention and looking for the warning signs. But what if a suicide has already happened? How do we talk about it publicly and privately in healthy, supportive ways? Anne Hillman talks with Scott Jensen and Alex DeMarban from the Alaska Dispatch News--who both covered the death at AFN this month--as well as Eric Boyer, a training coordinator with UAA who teaches about suicide.
