Both of us have published a comprehensive list of celebrities and notable leaders or artists from the past who are suicide survivors. Dan Fields<\/a> of the Grief Support Services program of Samaritans, Inc.<\/a>, has compiled the comprehensive list. <\/strong><\/p>\n Thank you, Dan, for taking the time to compile this list, so that other suicide survivors feel less alone.<\/p>\n Lost a Child<\/strong><\/p>\n President John Quincy Adams (son) Lost a Parent<\/strong><\/p>\n Mikhail Baryshnikov, ballet dancer (mother) Lost a Sibling<\/strong><\/p>\n Clay Aiken, singer\/songwriter (sister) Lost a Spouse<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n Lost Other Loved One<\/strong><\/p>\n David Bowie, singer\/songwriter and actor (half-brother) Compiled by Dan Fields for the Grief Support Services program of Samaritans, Inc., Boston (July 2011)<\/em><\/p>\n * Click here to subscribe to Beyond Blue<\/b><\/a> and click here to follow Therese on Twitter<\/b><\/a> and click here to join Group Beyond Blue<\/b><\/a>, a depression support group. Now stop clicking.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Survivors of suicide often feel completely alone in their sadness, which is quite understandable. Unlike losing a husband or child or parent to heart disease or cancer, loved ones of person who have committed suicide can\u2019t express their grief publicly. As often as suicide happens \u2013 approximately 30,000 times a year in our country alone\u2014the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mental-health"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2011\/07\/Marlon-Brando.jpg\")
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\nJames Arness, actor (daughter)
\nMarlon Brando, actor (daughter)
\nGro Harlem Brundtland, Prime Minister of Norway (son)
\nSir Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (daughter)
\nJudy Collins, singer\/songwriter (son)
\nTony Dungy, football coach (son)
\nRobert Frost, poet (son)
\nMajor General Mark Graham (son)
\nEric Hipple, NFL quarterback (son)
\nBrit Hume, TV journalist (son)
\nPresident Andrew Johnson (son)
\nWalter Koenig, actor (son)
\nArt Linkletter, radio\/TV personality (daughter)
\nWillie Nelson, singer\/songwriter (son)
\nCarroll O\u2019Connor, actor (son)
\nMarie Osmond, singer and actress (son)
\nSenator Gordon Smith (son)
\nDanielle Steel, romance novelist (son)
\nGloria Vanderbilt, fashion designer (son)<\/p>\n
\nRichard Belzer, actor (father)
\nLarry Bird, basketball player and executive (father)
\nDrew Brees, NFL quarterback (mother)
\nSarah Brightman, singer\/songwriter and actress (father)
\nFrederick Buechner, writer and theologian (father)
\nPerry Farrell, singer\/songwriter (mother)
\nJane Fonda, actress (mother)
\nPeter Fonda, actor (mother)
\nMariette Hartley, actress (father)
\nChristopher Hitchens, writer (mother)
\nRandi Kaye, CNN anchor (father)
\nJoshua Logan, stage and movie director (father)
\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2011\/07\/melissa-rivers.jpg\")
<\/a>Archie Manning, NFL quarterback (father)
\nChester Marcol, NFL kicker (father)
\nFreddie Prinze, Jr., actor (father)
\nSenator Harry Reid (father)
\nMelissa Rivers, TV personality (father)
\nLinda Gray Sexton, writer (mother: Anne Sexton)
\nMichelle Ray Smith, actress (father)
\nFirst Lady Bess Truman (father)
\nTed Turner, media tycoon (father)
\nKurt Vonnegut, writer (mother)
\nJake Weber, actor (mother)
\nFirst Lady Ellen Wilson (father)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2011\/07\/mia-farrow-1.jpg\")
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\nRobert Antonioni, Massachusetts State Senator (brother)
\nAnderson Cooper, CNN anchor (brother)
\nCameron Crowe, screenwriter and movie director (sister)
\nMia Farrow, actress and humanitarian (brother)
\nJulia Glass, novelist (sister)
\nMariel Hemingway, actress and writer (sister: Margaux Hemingway;
\nalso lost grandfather: Ernest Hemingway)
\nKatharine Hepburn, actress (brother)
\nMichel Martin, NPR host (brother)
\nPatrick Swayze, actor (sister)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2011\/07\/graham1.jpg\")
<\/a>Stephen Ambrose, historian (wife)
\nLouise Erdrich, novelist (estranged husband)
\nHenry Fonda, actor (wife)
\nKatharine Graham, Washington Post publisher (husband)
\nHelmut Kohl, Chancellor of Germany (wife)
\nCourtney Love, singer\/songwriter (husband: Kurt Cobain)
\nHelen Steiner Rice, poet (husband)
\nJoan Rivers, comedian (husband)<\/p>\n
\nCarmen Electra, actress and model (half-brother)
\nEminem, singer\/songwriter (two uncles, one of whom he regarded as a father)
\nSylvie Fr\u00e9chette, Canadian synchronized swimmer (fianc\u00e9)![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/71\/2011\/07\/225px-John_F._Kerry-206x300.jpg\")
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\nFerguson Jenkins, baseball pitcher (fianc\u00e9e)
\nSenator John Kerry (grandfather)
\nEli Manning, NFL quarterback (grandfather)
\nPeyton Manning, NFL quarterback (grandfather)
\nLiza Minnelli, singer and actress (aunt)
\nDemi Moore, actress (stepfather)
\nDenis Potvin, hockey player (cousin: Marc Potvin)
\nDavid Spade, actor and comedian (stepfather)<\/p>\n