‘Out of Darkness’: Eighth-annual fundraising walk sheds light on suicide

Submitted by redwoodwriter on Mon, 2015-09-14 05:40

Article here. Excerpt:

'A fundraising walk this month aims to bring discussions about suicide and mental health “out of the darkness” and into the light.

The eighth annual Watertown Out of Darkness Walk for Suicide Prevention will be held at noon Sept. 26 at Thompson Park.

The walk is one of more than 300 Out of Darkness Walks around the country organized by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. It raises money to support research and local education programs to fight suicide.

“When you walk in an Out of Darkness Walk, you join with people across the country to help raise awareness of suicide and financially support the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, which supports the survivors of suicide loss, advocates for public policy and invests in research and educational programs to prevent suicide,” event organizer Vicki S. Hill said in a news release.

Ms. Hill said she became involved with the event to honor her brother, Joe Morse, who was lost to suicide in January 2012.'

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"The quote in this article, a woman talking about her own brother's suicide, is classic -- "why would he do that?" Most American women have no inkling of the pressures American men are under, and they have no intention of learning about those pressures either (solipsism in action). They simply declare suicide to be a sickness, and its inexplicable when a man opts not to put up with crushing alimony payments, or a debilitating injury sustained by war, or something else unbearable. They refuse to understand it. My guess is that they don't want to understand it, because they are likely to learn things about their advantaged position that they would prefer not to know. The men's rights movement is held back in a big way because most American women just don't want to know."

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2015-09-15 00:10