Anderson Cooper

Suicide is complicated. There’s never only one reason for it, and many suicide loss survivors will never fully know why a loved one has died by suicide. Anderson Cooper, whose brother died by suicide 30 years ago, recently spoke with a fellow suicide loss survivor. He recalled a conversation with her about the one question everyone [...]

On Sunday night, CNN aired a town hall hosted by Anderson Cooper called, “Finding Hope: Battling America’s Suicide Crisis.” Following the suicides of designer Kate Spade and chef and writer Anthony Bourdain — along with a new CDC report confirming the suicide rate has gone up by 25 percent since 1999 — Cooper led a conversation [...]

Dear Anderson Cooper, You don’t know me, and I don’t know you. But we do share something in common. We are both survivors of suicide loss. In 1988 you lost your brother Carter to suicide, and 17 months ago, on April 20, 2015, I lost my father. In just a few days, you will join [...]

Paul Gileno is the founder and former president of the U.S. Pain Foundation. The “Anderson Cooper 360” town hall “Prescription Addiction: Made in America,” which aired May 11 on CNN, further stigmatized people with pain. I am deeply troubled and disappointed by the one-sided, biased discussion surrounding pain medication that completely disregarded the voices of [...]