Film Explores Elders' Life-End Issues through Father's Suicide

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Few subjects in the field of aging are as provocative as that of suicide, and few moments in a family's life can be as shattering as when a beloved elder ends his life. Award-winning documentary filmmaker Susan Stern not only endured this most personal experience but spent more than three years trying to make sense of what had happened. The result, The SelfMade Man, is being aired nationally in July on POV, the PBS forum for independent productions. Also, the hour-long film is available on VHS or DVD from New Day Films at www.newday.com.

An adviser on The Self-Made Man , Patrick Arbore, director of the Center for Elderly Suicide Prevention and GriefRelated Services at the …