DIMOND: Placing the Blame for Suicide

DIMOND: Placing the Blame for Suicide

BY DIANE DIMOND If 2019 stays on trend, more than 47,000 Americans will kill themselves this year. Their loved ones will, understandably, be consumed with grief. But some of them will then go on to try and affix outside blame for the death. Many of them will hire a lawyer and file a wrongful death […]

SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADULTS WHO HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE TO SUICIDE

SUPPORT GROUP FOR ADULTS WHO HAVE LOST A LOVED ONE TO SUICIDE

Every first Wednesday of the month, the Mental Health Association of Rockland County offers a professionally facilitated Survivors of Suicide (SOS) support group for adults age 18 and over who have lost someone to suicide. The SOS group meets from 7 – 8:15 p.m. at the Mental Health Association of Rockland, 140 Route 303, Valley […]

Former Yankees Hurler Tommy John to Hold Suicide Prevention Benefit in Rockland County

Former Yankees Hurler Tommy John to Hold Suicide Prevention Benefit in Rockland County

A red carpet event will be held at the Montebello Mansion September 18, 2012, sponsored by Gary Goldberg Financial Services on behalf of Tommy Johnโ€™s son Taylor John who lost his life in 2010. All proceeds will go to the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention under โ€œTeam Taylor.โ€ โ€œLetโ€™s help Tommy John Strike out Suicide, […]

JUNIOR SEAU — ANOTHER AMERICAN FOOTBALL CASUALTY

BY MICHAEL CAHILL Police in Oceanside California on Wednesday discovered the body of former Chargers and Patriots Probowl linebacker Junior Seau. According to police, Seauโ€™s body was found at his home by his girlfriend with a single gunshot wound to the chest. Police are ruling it as a suicide. Both the New England Patriots and […]