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Tim Ahlers, Director of Marketing and Community Relations
319-688-7340 or e-mail: tim.ahlers@mercyic.org
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AUTHOR WILL ADDRESS SUICIDE AND ITS AFTERMATH
March 27, 2008/Iowa
City, IA: When an individual takes his own life, it sets off a ripple
effect of guilt and uncertainty that touches family, friends and
colleagues. The stigma and silence that often surrounds suicide
can also cloud the grieving and healing process for survivors.
Best-selling author Carla Fine will address these and other issues
on Thursday, April 24, in two programs entitled, “Beyond Surviving:
Helping and Healing in the Aftermath of Suicide.” Both programs
will be held at Mercy Medical Plaza, 540 East Jefferson Street in
Iowa City. The first will be a luncheon CEU program for health care
and affiliated professionals, 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The cost is
$10, including lunch and CEU credit. The second presentation will
be a free community program beginning at 7 p.m. in the evening.
Both will take place in the McAuley room, lower level of Mercy Medical
Plaza.
To register for the CEU program, call Mercy On Call at 358-2767
or toll-free 1-800-358-2767. No registration is necessary for the
free community program.
Carla Fine (see photo)
is the author of No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of
a Loved One and Touched by Suicide: Hope and Healing After Loss,
and is the survivor of her physician-husband’s suicide in
1989. In her presentations she will tell her own story and the stories
of other survivors she has met and interviewed over the years. She
also offers practical guidance to survivors and professionals about
surviving the suicide of a loved one.
These presentations are sponsored by Mercy Iowa City, Iowa City
Hospice, Iowa State Bank & Trust Co., Iowa City Press-Citizen,
Lensing Funeral and Cremation Service and Psychiatric Associates.
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