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03-02-2018, 03:31 PM
The article to me, seemed to focus on why we should prevent a person completing suicide more from the view of society or those close to, rather than the suffering person themselves. The empasis on those left behind, suicide contagion etc...
But when she did focus on the suicidal person...
"People need more resources and more reasons to want to stay alive. If society treated people better – if there were more jobs, better health care, and less violence, for example – fewer people would want to die."
No... that is too simplistic a view, as though if all those things could be resolved, people would no longer want to end their own lives. If only it were that simple! Unfortunately people's lives are a lot more complex and everyone's reasons for feeling suicidal are varied and unique.
But when she did focus on the suicidal person...
"People need more resources and more reasons to want to stay alive. If society treated people better – if there were more jobs, better health care, and less violence, for example – fewer people would want to die."
No... that is too simplistic a view, as though if all those things could be resolved, people would no longer want to end their own lives. If only it were that simple! Unfortunately people's lives are a lot more complex and everyone's reasons for feeling suicidal are varied and unique.
To the world you might just be one person, but to one person you might be the world.