Kara  is one of many websites dedicated to grief support. The Internet offers fora (sites, listservs, discussion groups, etc.) for discussion of just about every kind of personal problem imaginable.

Is the Internet, in your opinion, a good place or a bad place for such undertakings? What factors make it different from more traditional face-to-face encounters?

Poke around in the Leading Causes of Death Reports from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

What differences do you notice between, say, the most recent statistics on white females and white males in the U.S. between the ages of 25 and 35? If you were to make a public health recommendation based on your findings, what would it be?