David Axelrod: I'm sharing my father's story to help end a stigma

2:44pm PDT - May 14th, 2021    barack obama - CNN

For 30 years, writes David Axelrod, he didn't talk publicly about his father's death by suicide, worrying that it would somehow sully his memory; "that people would interpret it as weakness or a defect of character. I loved and admired him and didn't want his…