United States Surgeon General David Satcher has made suicide prevention his signature issue. And his mission is being taken up in Boston today at a Suicide Prevention Conference. It's part of an effort to craft a nationally recognized suicide prevention strategy.
Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States.
We talk with WBUR reporter Monica Brady at the Suicide Prevention Conference in downtown Boston. The leading developer and supplier of technical computing software in the world. To listen to archives, you need RealPlayer media plug-in. Download the free plug-in . To listen live, you need the Windows Media plug-in.