Editor’s note: Death by suicide is a public health issue, and it is the Vail Daily’s intention to raise awareness in a responsible manner and encourage those who are at risk to seek help.
Suicide prevention workers and mental health service providers in Eagle County are asking people who have recently lost a loved one to suicide to take a difficult step: Help them to better understand why that person died by suicide through psychological autopsy investigations to help improve community services and programs to prevent future suicides.
Launched by SpeakUp ReachOut and other partners on the Eagle County Psychological Autopsy Cohort, the research initiative is seeking families impacted by suicide within the past two years to participate.
Commentary: Discrimination against churches didn’t have a prayer at US Supreme Court
Commentary: Emilie Kao, The Heritage Foundation
By Emilie Kao, The Heritage Foundation
Covid-19 made 2020 an incredibly hard year for Americans. Governors and mayors made it worse by shrinking religious freedom.
It didn’t have to be this way. Most Americans have shown that they’re willing to take sensible precautions. But some of those in leadership positions have overreacted, to put it mildly. As Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito observed in November, “the pandemic has resulted in previously unimaginable restrictions on individual liberty. We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as in 2020.”
Dec 31st, 2020 3 min read
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Director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center
Emilie Kao is director of the Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Religion & Civil Society at The Heritage Foundation. Treating two equivalent situations differently because of their nature is obviously unfair. Fortunately, the court has now made clear that it is also unconstitutional. imdm/Getty Images
Key Takeaways
COVID-19 made 2020 an incredibly hard year for Americans. Governors and mayors made it worse by shrinking religious freedom.
Some of those in leadership positions have overreacted, to put it mildly.
As America prepares for 2021, state and local officials should recognize the health needs of their citizens in the most comprehensive sense.
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Dec 22, 2020 12:01 AM EDT
New federal data showed U.S. life expectancy was inching upward in 2019 before the deadly coronavirus pandemic hit, and after years of devastation brought on by the opioid crisis eroded the average American lifespan.
Life expectancy in the U.S. was 78.8 years in 2019, up a tenth of a year over 2018, said Robert Anderson, chief of mortality statistics at the National Center for Health Statistics.
The new report released Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, through the National Center for Health Statistics, paints a picture of how Americans were living and dying before COVID-19 emerged in the U.S. and killed at least 320,000 in this country so far. To get that picture, researchers for the federal government gathered details from millions of death certificates.