| But there's the problem Ken, it's like talking to a cop about someone you know is dealing drugs. They can't DO anything until that person has broken the law and they can catch them doing it. Suicide being illegal gives them a right to intervene. Where the real breakdown in the system begins is with the stigma of actually going to someone in the mental health system. Mental health is totally ignored by most of our society until the sick person does something that crosses the line... For example, Andrea Yates.
Many more people have tried suicide than want to admit it. And many others participate in "passive suicide" by doing things that endanger thier health, without caring if it kills them or not. Like Evil Knievel.
And then there are people who have died (like my current hubby) and came back. He has a living will, and do not recessitate orders on his records.
I guess it comes down to being afraid of death, or afraid of life, or both....or neither.
I'm no longer actively suicidal, but if I found out I had cancer, I would refuse any aggressive treatment, like chemo. |