You're not allowed to end it all. Ever.

[Jenny A]

Actually, suicides are sometimes deterred by it's just being difficult when they want to end it. Packaging pills in those little punch out sheets rather than bottles can sometimes prevent a suicide. I wouldn't prevent a determined person of course.

Of course, they're not all in blister packs. I have a bottle of Doxylamine tablets that are all loose in the bottle. And I'm not sure if blister packs would be a good deterrent for suicide. I once saw a video of a guy's actual suicide (it's on Snopes). He took the time to screw the cap back onto his bottle of Evian before he blew his brains out. If a suicidal man can take the time out to do something that requires finer motor skills and doesn't contribute to the goal of ending his life, I see no reason why blister packs should be a deterrent.

In September 1998, Britain changed the packaging for paracetamol, the active ingredient in Tylenol, to require blister packs for packages of 16 pills when sold over the counter in places like convenience stores, and for packages of 32 pills in pharmacies. The result: a study by Oxford University researchers showed that over the subsequent 11 or so years, suicide deaths from Tylenol overdoses declined by 43 percent, and a similar decline was found in accidental deaths from medication poisonings.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/201...-suicides/