a fatality review team member also told me that she had yet to come across an investigation where there were not “unmet mental health needs.”) How much of this refusal to attribute O’Hanlon’s actions to mental health may or may not stem from mental health biases in this country? We tend to have easy empathy for people suffering mental health issues when they are universally beloved and when their actions affect only themselves (a Robin Williams, say), but our empathy falters, perhaps rightly so, when those actions affect the lives of others, such as what happened with O’Hanlon.
