Posted on 05/17/2015 8:45:19 AM PDT by Salman
I am a big believer in suicide prevention. But the movement has been derelict in struggling against blatant suicide promotion from the so-called “death with dignity” movement.
Here’s another example: Suicide preventers in Washington County, Oregon are pushing for a zero suicide rate. From the Oregon story:
Great. I hope they reach their goal.Suicide can be prevented. That was the takeaway message at the Washington County Suicide Prevention Council’s Summit of Hope on Wednesday, May 13. “The reality is individuals don’t want to die by suicide as much as they want to end the anguish and pain they are experiencing,” said David Covington, an expert on the Zero Suicide initiative and the keynote speaker at the free event.
Covington said it’s a myth to think a person cannot be helped if they are set on killing him or herself while under the supervision of a health care professional. Instead, training can help identify warning signs and provide appropriate steps for intervention.
“The programmatic approach of Zero Suicide is based on the realization that suicidal individuals often fall through cracks in a fragmented, and sometimes distracted, health care system,” according to a website dedicated to Zero Suicide.
But, what about helping people not commit assisted suicide?
Just as I thought: Crickets.
Oregon has the second worst suicide rate in the country–not the 13th worst mention in the story–and that’s without counting its legal assisted suicides that are called something else.
But suicide is suicide. Unless the county preventers work to provide suicide prevention for those asking for lethal prescriptions, they will never meet their goal.
And people diagnosed with terminal conditions who become suicidal will continue to receive suicide facilitation rather than prevention.
Why not have a special outreach to those who are thinking of requesting a lethal prescription? Because ignoring that cadre tacitly agrees that their lives are not worth living.
Suicide prevention that omits the doctor-prescribed suicide crisis is derelict in its mission.
Live forever in Oregon. Next they’ll pass a law making it illegal to die.
The biggest cause of suicide in Oregon is living in Oregon.
The reason why suicide is against the law is because it’s destruction of government property.
Doesn’t Oregon have euthanasia/assisted suicide friendly laws?
IIRC, one of my favorite ironic things is that in England during the 1500’s or so, suicide was a criminal act punishable by hanging.
They will just redefine the meaning of “Suicide”.
It’s the liberal way.
Suicides will be reclassified as “Persons Exercising Their Early Withdrawal Option”.
Voila! Zero suicides.
Soooo...what did they do....Hang the dead body?
never meet their goal.
They just have to re-define the terms.
So, what's their moonbat position on capital punishment?
I’ve heard it said often that Life’s a bitch—and then you die.
Don’t commit suicide or I’ll kill you.
But sucking people out of the womb is just great!
“The biggest cause of suicide in Oregon is living in Oregon.”
Exactly. And people don’t understand one of the factors why living in the Pac NW makes for a suicide-inducing environment. It’s the damn damp and rainy weather.
Weather just like SoCal, for the most part.
Huh? I’m from BC and went to WSU for my freshman year before Stanford. The weather’s the same regardless of the border.
Don’t let Hillary or Yoko Ono sing or speak there and you will be closer to the goal.
This thread is pathetic. Part of me wonders what happened to State’s Rights on FR; part of me cares not.
A majority of non-democrats in this State voted for the right and liberal bureaucrats said ‘no’, setting up a very, very long fight.
The abject hypocrisy of the ‘religious right’ over this very personal, yet polarizing, topic and the damage inflicted on Conservative unity will persist until so-called ‘Christians’ cease practicing tactics employed by islamists & liberals: Forcing beliefs on others.
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Well, you COULD lock the mentally ill up and force them to take their meds, thereby preventing a few more suicides and homicides when they decide to take others out with them.
But that would be MEAN. It’s more kind and gentle to let them run loose, live on the streets, babble to themselves, panhandle, die under a bridge or get knifed by another crazy person, etc.
*Rolleyes*
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