Recent suicides at Yale College

Kelowna
Tue, 08 Nov 2016 18:47:57 +0000

I want to start a discussion that will, hopefully, lead to some changes in communication.
There were two deaths at Yale last week. We all got that somber letters from Dean Holloway. Our kids talk, and soon we were finding out that those deaths were suicides. I am not trying to blame Dean Holloway or Yale specifically, but please, let’s talk openly about it. Suicide should be called suicide , not a tragic death or an accident. We need to demystify suicide the same way we demystified cancer. We need to acknowledge that mental illness is illness, the same way our gallbladders or kidneys get sick. I am sick and tired of this. Could Yale possibly lead a crusade, acknowledging that suicide happens and could we please start talking openly about this?