What is Norman Farberow?
{{Infobox scientist |name = Norman Louis Farberow |image =normanfarberow.jpg |image_size = |caption = Farberow at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services' Survivors After Suicide event in Culver City, California, June 27, 2009 |birth_date = {{birth date |1918|2|12}} |birth_place = [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]] |death_date = {{nowrap| {{Death date and age|2015|9|10|1918|2|12}}}} |death_place = [[Los Angeles, California]] |citizenship = |nationality = American |fields = [[Psychology]]<br />[[Suicidology]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = University of California, Los Angeles |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = A founding father of modern suicidology |influences = Karl Menninger |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = }} '''Norman L. Farberow''' (February 12, 1918 &ndash; September 10, 2015) was an [[Americans|American]] [[psychologist]]. He was one of the founding fathers of modern [[suicidology]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47150-7_5|title=Suicide Prevention: The Global Context|first=Onja T.|last=Grad|editor-first1=Robert J.|editor-last1=Kosky|editor-first2=Hadi S.|editor-last2=Eshkevari|editor-first3=Robert D.|editor-last3=Goldney|editor-first4=Riaz|editor-last4=Hassan|date=15 February 1998|publisher=Springer US|pages=17–19|doi=10.1007/0-306-47150-7_5 |via=Springer Link}}</ref> He was among the three founders in 1958 of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention Center, which became a base of research into the causes and prevention of suicide. Farberow died at the age of 97 on September 10, 2015, World Suicide Prevention Day in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.didihirsch.org/suicide-preventions-founding-father-dies-world-suicide-prevention-day |title=Suicide Prevention's Founding Father Dies on World Suicide Prevention Day &#124; Didi Hirsch |access-date=2015-09-13 |archive-date=2015-09-23