40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
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Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#2Briggs saw the worst of this during suicide crises on the bridge when drivers passing by would yell out, "Go ahead and jump."
Despicable.
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#3Briggs saw the worst of this during suicide crises on the bridge when drivers passing by would yell out, "Go ahead and jump." Despicable.
Regrettably this behavior appears to be protected by the first amendment, unless suicide itself is made illegal (as it used to be in many jurisdictions). A law criminalizing such behavior in Minnesota was reversed at appeal: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2014/03/19/encouraging-suicide-isnt... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Melchert-Dinkel
I can't politely express my opinion about people like this.
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#4Even Atlas shrugged
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#5"...the second-leading killer for those ages 15-34."
I would have never guessed that.
Now I can understand why some are trying to use social media to detect who might be expressing feeling that are common with depression and suicidal thoughts.
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#6Briggs saw the worst of this during suicide crises on the bridge when drivers passing by would yell out, "Go ahead and jump." Despicable.
People are dicks, they don't care.
You have to find the will and reason to live yourself if you really think life is that grim that you have to end it I have only one thing to say to you make sure you are 100% certain about that and there's no other way out of your situation before you do it this is one of the few things that cannot be undone.
There's almost certainly better options you can try before doing this.
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#7I read an article once that said that when suicide was illegal in the UK, the rate was a lot lower.
I'm not sure if that was true or not, but as a thought experiment: if making suicide illegal lowered it's occurrance, would you support that?
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#8"...the second-leading killer for those ages 15-34." I would have never guessed that. Now I can understand why some are trying to use social media to detect who might be expressing feeling that are common with depression and suicidal thoughts.
And these are mostly males.
Life for males really improves after 30. Girls starting to hit on you a lot more, better jobs, more money, less stress.
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#9"...the second-leading killer for those ages 15-34." I would have never guessed that. Now I can understand why some are trying to use social media to detect who might be expressing feeling that are common with depression and suicidal thoughts.
I would expect the demographic to shift soon, due the momentum that assisted dying is getting.
Re: 40,000 suicides annually, yet America simply shrugs
#10I read an article once that said that when suicide was illegal in the UK, the rate was a lot lower. I'm not sure if that was true or not, but as a thought experiment: if making suicide illegal lowered it's occurrance, would you support that?
I believe when it was illegal here in the UK, coroners would look for ways to record the death in more favourable ways (mostly for the family). So an overdose would be recorded as death by misadventure and not suicide.