Ashley Judd Instagram – My mother died by suicide more than a year ago. Since that horrific day, my family has been faced with certain media publishing photos and video of her death — images that have complicated and compounded our lifelong grief. During #NationalSuicidePreventionWeek, I’m recommitting to fight for laws that protect privacy of families ravaged by death by suicide, and for more resonsible reporting from the press about the mental illness that drives people to such a drastic measure. It is neither ethical nor decent to publish the kind of invasive details about death by suicide that appeared in print and on the internet after my mother’s death. All reporting on suicide needs to be medically accurate, evidence-based, cautious about contagions that activate and increase further self-harm ideation in readers and viewers, and informed by the guidelines established by @afspnational Thank you, National Press Club, for the podium. @pressclubdc