It’s short for Powerful School Announcement. Think about 19,000 students. Nineteen thousand. Every year. Then show this to your kids. Have a talk. Do good. Be good.
Life ain’t always beautiful
The man who sings this song knows that maxim better than most. If you know anything about the life of Gary Allen, well, it hasn’t always been beautiful for him. Far from it. This song comes from his “heart-wrenchingly personal” Tough All Over album, released not long after his wife, Angela Herzberg, committed suicide, a death blamed on depression and …
PSA of the Week
From the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: Suicides among young people continue to be a serious problem. Each year in the U.S., thousands of teenagers commit suicide. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for 15-to-24-year-olds, and the sixth leading cause of death for 5-to-14-year-olds. Teenagers experience strong feelings of stress, confusion, self-doubt, pressure to succeed, financial …
Music Therapy
That’s the drill on Thursdays. Music therapy. Don’t know if you realize this or not, but there are only two kinds of music videos: 1.) the concert video, basically a live performance, and; 2.) a concept video, which is just letting creative license take over. Interestingly enough, there are only 18,639,571 remaining concept for concept videos that have not been …
OPINION POLL
The Medical Examiner wants your opinion. The death of Brittany Maynard of Oregon earlier this month made international headlines. As you will recall, she had terminal brain cancer and in April of this year was told she had approximately six months to live. She chose to end her life rather than go through the final stages of dying from brain …
Tired
While the entire western world is focused on depression and suicide might be an excellent time to post this little film I saw a few weeks ago. It’s less than two minutes long, so give it a look. “Tired” by Megan McShane from Megan McShane on Vimeo.
The PSA of the Week
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The Helicopter Issue drops
Not literally, silly. I don’t need the NTSB on my case. But the cover story today is about a disturbing trend: jailing moms (and sometimes dads) for leaving their kids unattended for five minutes. You know, the kind of things our parents used to do to us for five hours. Mothers are being hauled off to jail; kids are being …
PSA of the Week
As Medical Examiner readers know, this week is National Suicide Prevention Week, and today is World Suicide Prevention Day. This week’s front page story (scroll down to read it) relates a number of sad statistics about suicide, including the statement that “every day more than 20… members of the US armed forces die by suicide.” The figures we have seen …
PSA for This Week
One week from today is World Suicide Prevention Day. And National Suicide Prevention Week is September 8 – 14. Did you know that more than 5 million Americans have been directly affected by a suicide? That is just one of many surprising statistics you’ll read in this week’s Medical Examiner cover story, along with several helpful Dos and Don’ts. It’s …
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