<div dir="ltr">It'd probably be very worthwhile to work with BlueHackers on that, assuming they don't already have such an initiative - they are mainly about depression, but suicide and depression are often concomitant:<div>
<a href="http://bluehackers.org/">http://bluehackers.org/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div style>Loki</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Matt Joyce <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt@nycresistor.com" target="_blank">matt@nycresistor.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Might be good to do some videos of people talking about the aftermath<br>
of a suicide. The pain, the sadness, the regret that they didn't know<br>
and couldn't do more.<br>
<br>
To me that seems the most effective way to get a person who is<br>
suffering to reach out for help.<br>
<br>
-Matt<br>
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Brian McConnell <<a href="mailto:bsmcconnell@gmail.com">bsmcconnell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I first met Aaron at an O'Reilly conference about ten years ago. While I<br>
> can't claim him as a friend, we crossed paths from time to time, and I<br>
> admired his work. I attended his funeral this week, and never want to see<br>
> friends and family have to go through something like that.<br>
><br>
> I decided to devote some time to a community curated suicide prevention<br>
> campaign. It is modeled after early AIDS prevention campaigns, which deal<br>
> with the issue in a frank, direct manner, without medicalizing the subject,<br>
> and treated people like adults. What I've done is to write a storyboard /<br>
> narrative which illustrators and audio/visual arts can use as the basis for<br>
> animated or printed versions of this, and can adapt to various audiences,<br>
> from adolescents, to people who've recently experienced a major loss. You<br>
> can find the narrative at:<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://github.com/worldwidelexicon/why_you_shouldnt_commit_suicide/blob/master/storyboard.md" target="_blank">https://github.com/worldwidelexicon/why_you_shouldnt_commit_suicide/blob/master/storyboard.md</a><br>
><br>
> Please spread the word to your friends. If any good can come out of this, it<br>
> will be better suicide prevention campaigns and programs.<br>
><br>
> If anyone wants to discuss, I can be reached at <a href="mailto:bsmcconnell@gmail.com">bsmcconnell@gmail.com</a><br>
><br>
> Thanks,<br>
><br>
> Brian McConnell<br>
><br>
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