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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Lifestyle
Thomas Curwen

An LA journalist’s death by suicide still confounds years later. 'Can we ever understand that?'

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Three years after her husband took his life, Sara Scribner wants to talk. She knows it won't be easy, but the time is right. Suicide and mental illness have long been the subject of whisper campaigns and conjecture, but the pandemic, she believes, has changed that.

"Scott's suicide has been the background noise every minute of my life," she said, "but whenever I bring up his name in conversation, people get uncomfortable."

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