David Shaffer, Medical ‘Detective’ in Suicide of Youths, Dies at 87
Dr. David Shaffer, a psychiatrist who spent decades studying children and teenagers who died by suicide, constructing a framework for screening and laying the groundwork for modern prevention efforts, died on Sunday in Mastic Beach, N.Y., on Long Island. He was 87. His son, Dr. Charlie Shaffer, said the cause was respiratory complications of Alzheimer’s…