By Vivian Zayas The effects of the coronavirus pandemic will be “imprinted on the personality of our nation for a very long time,” predicted Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. No doubt in the future people will mourn those who’ve died and remember the challenges of this period. But […]
From 2000 to 2016, the suicide rate among American workers has increased 34 percent, up 12.9 per 100,000 working persons to 17.3, according to a worrisome new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Workers with the highest suicide rates have construction, mining and drilling jobs, the U.S. health officials reported Thursday. […]
As a summer of record high temperatures continues, a sobering new study suggests that more summers like this could have serious mental health consequences. The study, published in Nature Climate Change Monday, found that, for every one degree Celsius increase in average monthly temperature, suicide rates go up by 0.7 percent in U.S. counties and […]
By Jana Richman In a dark time, the eye begins to see. Theodore Roethke It slips in quietly. A hint of terseness marks his voice, an opaque film covers his blue eyes, his face flushes and its lines deepen. His 6’4″ frame droops toward the floor as if he’s ashamed to drape his sorry self […]
A nationally known civil rights lawyer and environmental advocate died after setting himself on fire in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park on Saturday to protest environmental destruction. David Buckel, 60, doused himself with an accelerant before starting a fire that ultimately killed him. “I apologize to you for the mess,” he wrote in a suicide note he […]
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