Good For Gordon Smith

Some you may know that Sen. Gordon Smith's son, Garrett, killed himself in 2003. The Oregon senator opened up about his loss on the Senate floor the following year, pushing the whole nasty silence around suicide aside in ways that few have ever done. Smith, a Republican, has written a book. Here's a link to it at Barnes & Noble. Good work, Gordo. My own feeble attempt at writing about suicide is here. In it, I was a bit critical of Smith's then-silence on his son's death. The senator rectified that 7 month's later to the benefit of us all.