To Watch or Not to Watch; Suicide as Subject Matter on Screen

The Leftover Pieces; Suicide Loss Conversations - A podcast by Melissa Bottorff-Arey

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We regularly find suicide as a subject matter on TV and in film these days. But since suicide is such a pervading theme in this life we now live, the question remains - to watch or not? Does the content activate you or help you? Since the reasons these films, or shows, are made can be so diverse - to educate, to cause fear or shock or disgust, or even to provoke or bring about change and awareness - so are our reasons for choosing, or not choosing, to watch them. Today, I explore and d...