Oops, I didn’t know that could kill you!
November 16th 2008 13:22
I came across an interesting bit of information while working on my last post, Victim on Trial. The writer of the Herald Sun piece was chastised by national mental health charity Sane Australia after readers complained to Sane’s ‘StigmaWatch’, for reporting the method of suicide the couple had used.
What hope do we have when even those who are supposed to help us stay sane, have gone completely mad? What exactly are they trying to achieve here?
It’s not like the issue of suicide can be fixed by making people unaware how to carry it out.
Oh yes, I can see it now, all those lives saved just because people couldn’t work out what it was they were supposed to do with that noose. Scratching their heads with suicide notes in hand, just trying to figure out what the sleeping pills were for?
What next – will warning labels on poison bottles be outlawed? Better get rid of those high-voltage wire warnings and we don’t want them knowing they can suffocate with a plastic bag!
We will create a generation of imbeciles all running around killing themselves accidentally because they don’t know what is lethal and what is not!
Ok, so I understand the logic behind the insanity… it is about mental association, yes, we can argue that a warning of death does not promote the method, where as a description of suicide could be seen to do so.
If a person knows by what means another committed suicide it could open up the possibility of a `method’ they may have not considered before.
But really, for a person to be influenced into a copy-cat suicide, that person would have already been afflicted with mental and emotional imbalance.
It is merely a band-aid approach to simply censor out information that could be deemed harmful. And a dangerous one at that.
If any association or organisation is really interested in helping reduce the ever increasing issues of mental illness in society, they first need to look at, and accept, the real causes behind the current epidemic.
Next, and so much more difficult, they need to address those issues.
I speak from years of personal experience when I say that the issues causing the problems are generally the same - people today are under too much pressure. We are expected to conform to society’s mould, to go with the flow, or else.
We are judged by standards and expectations we can not live up to, nor should we have to try.
We are over-worked, underpaid, overtaxed, over stressed and always running late. There is so much administration in everyday life, so much bullshit that has to be done.
By the time people finally get any time to spend with their families they are totally worn out, then feel guilty for not doing more.
We have to keep trudging along in this cycle because there are bills to pay, and mouths to feed and it is impossible to live any other way!
Most people are strung so tight these days, that any additional pressure or tragedy can easily snap their fragile wire and send them spiralling into depression.
The people who run the world are insane with an insatiable greed, we are their work-horses, and I think we are coming to an age where people are more educated in general and have a greater capacity to understand.
I believe large numbers human beings are awakening their true selves, and as this happens they realise that the way of life imposed on them is not true to their hearts – they want change, but they feel powerless, and don’t believe it can come.
Now who is going to tackle that one? Sane Australia?
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Comment by Movie Mall
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But, seriously, it's just another example of this whole control thing getting way out of control.