Veteran Suicide

NY Times article entitled "Taking Calls from Veterans on the Brink." How effective do you think hotlines at preventing suicide? What are other ways suicide can be prevented in veterans? How might volunteers at suicide-prevention hotlines be trained to help them deal with the stress of hearing the veterans' stories?

Monitoring Elderly Parents

From the NY Times, "Technologies Help Adult Children Monitor Aging Parents." What do you think of these new technologies? Is it a positive thing to monitor elderly parents so closely, or an invasion of their privacy? Would you want something like this for your parent? Would you want your own children to have this much insight into your life?