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Welcome to Grief TV! 

GTV is a video podcast about the many manifestations of grief—in us, in our communities, in our nation. 

Episode 3 features Peggy Battin, a philosopher, bioethicist, researcher, and writer, who does work around the ethics of dying, including suicide and physician-assisted dying. Her husband Brooke, who became quadriplegic after a bicycle accident, died in 2013 after he requested removal of life support. 

In this episode, we talked about Peggy's history of grief, how the loss of her mother set her down a path to find out what it means to have a "good death," how losing Brooke was an echo of losing her mom, and how life and professional interests collide. 

GTV is a sibling project to Live Through This, Suicide 'n' Stuff, the Suicide Chat listserv, & I Hurt Myself Today: A Self-Injury Resource.

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Welcome to Grief TV! 

GTV is a video podcast about the many manifestations of grief—in us, in our communities, in our nation. 

Episode 2 features Sue Klebold, mother of Dylan Klebold, one of two gunmen in the Columbine High School shootings of April 20, 1999. Dylan and his friend killed twelve students and a teacher and wounded more than twenty others before taking their own lives. Since then, Sue has examined the intersection of mental health and violence toward self or others. Sue donates all author profits from her memoir, A Mother’s Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy to suicide prevention, brain research, and mental health organizations. 

In this episode, we focused on Sue's experiences as a mother grieving for her son, and how complicated that grief was alongside the grief she experienced for those Dylan murdered. We talked about ritual, continuing bonds, how Sue made meaning of these losses, how that affected her work, and so much more.

GTV is a sibling project to Live Through This, Suicide 'n' Stuff, the Suicide Chat listserv, & I Hurt Myself Today: A Self-Injury Resource.

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Welcome to Grief TV!

GTV is a video podcast about the many manifestations of grief—in us, in our communities, in our nation.

Episode 1 features Dr. Jack Jordan, a clinician scholar in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Jack worked in private practice for most of his life before retiring in 2018. He began his career as a family and couples therapist who worked with a number of life problems, but his main focus eventually became grief counseling. In the last three decades before his retirement, his work centered on helping those bereaved by suicide (called suicide loss survivors).

Jack wrote and published many professional articles and book chapters, including professional books on bereavement after suicide (Grief After Suicide: Understanding the Consequences and Caring for the Survivors, 2011); on how parents cope with the traumatic death of a child (Devastating Losses: How Parents Cope with the Death of a Child to Suicide or Drugs, 2012); and on an attachment-informed approach to grief therapy (Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician's Guide to Foundations and Applications, 2016).

Despite being retired, Jack continues to train mental health professionals and other human service professionals, as he's done for more than 30 years. His workshops focus on grief therapy, traumatic loss, and suicide prevention and postvention.

You can learn more about Jack and his work at johnjordanphd.com.

SHOW NOTES:

Jack and I referred to a handful of organization and other websites over the course of the show. Links below:

· Live Through This

· Suicide 'n' Stuff

· American Association of Suicidology

· Rhys Meatyard 

· Alliance of Hope

We also discussed specific academic papers:

Cerel, J., Brown, M. M., Maple, M., Singleton, M., Van De Venne, J., Moore, M., & Flaherty, C. (2019). How many people are exposed to suicide? Not six. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 49(2), 529-534. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12450

Cerel, J., McIntosh, J. L., Neimeyer, R. A., Maple, M., & Marshall, D. (2014). The continuum of "survivorship": Definitional issues in the aftermath of suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 44(6), 591-600. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12093

Suicide rising across the U.S. (2018, June 7). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Retrieved February 11, 2021, from https://cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/index.html.

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GTV is a sibling project to Live Through This, Suicide 'n' Stuff, the Suicide Chat listserv, & I Hurt Myself Today: A Self-Injury Resource.