I think there should be real sucide clinics...
Maybe the depression is really hitting hard but I think it shouldnt be against the law. Why should it be. It's my right. Isnt it.
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ThePerfectUsername · 70-79, M
I don't remember the reasoning behind the suicide-is-a-crime law ever having been properly debated in modern society. It was handed down to us from an entirely christian perspective in which god alone could judge when it was a person's time to die. And quite frankly I think that's bollocks, that we should all be allowed to make that decision.
The problem there comes from admitting that nobody ever decided to commit suicide when the were at the top of their game... the decision to do so was invariably when the were at the lowest point they'd ever been at.
So yes, there should be clinics and the stigma should be completely removed, but still there are problems. You don't need me to tell you that suicide never solved anything. All a suicide does is pass all that pain and suffering on to someone else who in all probability isn't going to be the same person that cased the problem in the first place. The person who caused the problems isn't going to care what you do... it's the ones who do care that are going to get hurt.
So yes again, there should be clinics and the stigma should be removed, but those clinics would have to be [b]damn good at their jobs[/b] because the result of getting it wrong would still be that a person might decide they still have nothing left to live for.
So in my opinion such clinics could only ever be a stop-gap emergency facility. What's really needed goes much deeper and would involve including the likes of psychiatrists, phycologists, and councillors etc, genuine long term carers and support structures which would include housing providers and employers which someone would have to financially guarantee would never be taken away for lack of funding etc.
And sadly I see very little hope of ever seeing those sort of facilities while the average man in the street would much rather it all be swept under the carpet out of sight.
The problem there comes from admitting that nobody ever decided to commit suicide when the were at the top of their game... the decision to do so was invariably when the were at the lowest point they'd ever been at.
So yes, there should be clinics and the stigma should be completely removed, but still there are problems. You don't need me to tell you that suicide never solved anything. All a suicide does is pass all that pain and suffering on to someone else who in all probability isn't going to be the same person that cased the problem in the first place. The person who caused the problems isn't going to care what you do... it's the ones who do care that are going to get hurt.
So yes again, there should be clinics and the stigma should be removed, but those clinics would have to be [b]damn good at their jobs[/b] because the result of getting it wrong would still be that a person might decide they still have nothing left to live for.
So in my opinion such clinics could only ever be a stop-gap emergency facility. What's really needed goes much deeper and would involve including the likes of psychiatrists, phycologists, and councillors etc, genuine long term carers and support structures which would include housing providers and employers which someone would have to financially guarantee would never be taken away for lack of funding etc.
And sadly I see very little hope of ever seeing those sort of facilities while the average man in the street would much rather it all be swept under the carpet out of sight.