Mixed Messages on Suicide Prevention in Vermont

Mixed Messages on Suicide Prevention in Vermont » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: Vermont school administrators, guidance counselors and teachers routinely receive training on how to prevent teen suicides. That’s good. But whatever would get teens to think suicide could be acceptable answer to ending human suffering? Oh, yes: The new governor of Vermont ran on a plank of legalizing assisted suicide and a big push is to be made in the legislature to pass just such a law.