[hackerspaces] A community curated suicide prevention campaign

[Lokkju Brennr]

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:
http://bluehackers.org/

Loki


On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Matt Joyce <matt at nycresistor.com> wrote:

> Might be good to do some videos of people talking about the aftermath
> of a suicide.  The pain, the sadness, the regret that they didn't know
> and couldn't do more.
>
> To me that seems the most effective way to get a person who is
> suffering to reach out for help.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Brian McConnell <bsmcconnell at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I first met Aaron at an O'Reilly conference about ten years ago. While I
> > can't claim him as a friend, we crossed paths from time to time, and I
> > admired his work. I attended his funeral this week, and never want to see
> > friends and family have to go through something like that.
> >
> > I decided to devote some time to a community curated suicide prevention
> > campaign. It is modeled after early AIDS prevention campaigns, which deal
> > with the issue in a frank, direct manner, without medicalizing the
> subject,
> > and treated people like adults. What I've done is to write a storyboard /
> > narrative which illustrators and audio/visual arts can use as the basis
> for
> > animated or printed versions of this, and can adapt to various audiences,
> > from adolescents, to people who've recently experienced a major loss. You
> > can find the narrative at:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/worldwidelexicon/why_you_shouldnt_commit_suicide/blob/master/storyboard.md
> >
> > Please spread the word to your friends. If any good can come out of
> this, it
> > will be better suicide prevention campaigns and programs.
> >
> > If anyone wants to discuss, I can be reached at bsmcconnell at gmail.com
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Brian McConnell
> >
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