Melinda Moore, PhD, is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) in Richmond, Kentucky, and core faculty for the EKU Clinical Psychology doctoral program. She routinely trains clinicians in the empirically supported suicide-focused treatment framework CAMS and is in private practice in Lexington, Kentucky. She published The Suicide Funeral: Honoring their Memory, Comforting their Survivors (Wipf & Stock) with her co-editor, Rabbi Daniel Roberts.
Rabbi Daniel A. Roberts, DD, DMin, FT, is rabbi emeritus of Temple Emanu El in Cleveland, Ohio, where he served for thirty-five years. Rabbi Roberts received his ordination from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati (1969) and his DMin from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He earned a fellow in thanatology certification awarded by the Association for Death Education and Counselling. Throughout his career Rabbi Roberts has been intrigued with the field of thanatology.