Thanks for bringing this up! I just read the same article.

Usually when people are protesting on the Capitol steps for suicide prevention, it has to do with funding something pertaining to suicide prevention. In NY, we recently created a statewide suicide prevention plan. The one thing I wanted to see from this plan is funding for TV and radio advertising. If we get the topic of suicide into peoples' livingrooms, maybe we can begin to make it a topic which people can discuss more comfortably.

Sorta like Seinfeld did for "master of my domain". It's not a comfy topic, but if we admit thats lots of us think about it, then maybe we can talk about it more freely.

If we can talk about it more freely, some of us will certainly be better able to ask for help.

Emmy