Suicide Prevention

[Jackalope]

Yesterday at noon, while I was outside my office having a smoke, somebody jumped from the parking garage across the street, resulting in a fatality. This is the third time in as many years that a suicide was completed in that exact same spot. I was unlucky enough to be a witness in 2009 - the visual of a broken 15 year old body on the sidewalk is not one that you can easily erase from your memory.

December, 2009
May, 2011
December, 2012

The story here is not that my place of employment is unfortunately located near a popular suicide location, but that attempted and completed suicide (at least locally) is on the rise.

What can we, both individually and collectively, do to help people and prevent suicide?

[Something completely different]

Dont drive people into suicide and being aware what consequences ones actions have on another person.
I know of a bullying victim who hanged himself in his fathers garage, when the bullies where interviewed they said "We were only having fun".
Aswell as I read of a young man who cut his head off, at the buisness where he was working at because he was bullied so viciously.

And spread awareness that the option to talk about problems exists and should be used. There is no shame in talking about them and it certainly isn`t a sighn of weakness.
I know of a family were the father who was constantly happy and showed absolutly no sighn of depression suddently hanged himself one day.

[Anomalocaris]

What can we, both individually and collectively, do to help people and prevent suicide?

Don't tempt people with the promise that if they commit suicide, they can avoid the unspeakable fate of sucking Jesus cock for an eternity.

[Tea Earl Grey Hot]

I don't understand why people would choose to kill themselves by jumping off a building. Aren't there much easier and less painful ways to kill yourself?

[Anomalocaris]

I don't understand why people would choose to kill themselves by jumping off a building. Aren't there much easier and less painful ways to kill yourself?

If you jump off a reasonably high building, chances are your end will be physically essentially painless.

[Something completely different]

I don't understand why people would choose to kill themselves by jumping off a building. Aren't there much easier and less painful ways to kill yourself?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complet...of_Suicide

I wouldn`t ask the question actualy.

The case with the kid I mentioned. He deliberatly planned out and built a contraption which would cut of his head with a chainsaw and make a total mess.

At least that`s what I heared of.

He wanted the people who drove him into doing this "to clean the mess up"

That`s not what the newspapers said, but I heared that it was in his last letter.

[popeyespappy]

As far as kids go anti bullying programs are a good start. Permanently culling the herd of those who claim religious exemptions to anti bullying laws would be a better one.

[Jackalope]

I don't understand why people would choose to kill themselves by jumping off a building. Aren't there much easier and less painful ways to kill yourself?

I suspect it has something to do with buildings / bridges and gravity being ubiquitous, high-G impacts being universally fatal, as well as the method having essentially an immediate point-of-no-return.

In other words, they choose to jump, because they're fucking serious about it.

[Faith No More]

Most of all, we need to erase the stigma of asking for help with mental issues. Too many people see those with mental health problems as weak-minded, causing those who suffer to abstain from seeking help to avoid the negative stigma. There is also the perception that a lot of depression is "just in your head," and those that see it that way do not recognize it as a legitimate health issue.

In my experience, the two scenarios that ended the worst when someone struggled with depression were cases in which the person involved was afraid to ask for the help they truly needed.

(BTW, CD, I am no stranger to this kind of stuff, so feel free to PM me if you want get some things off your chest.)

[Jackalope]

(BTW, CD, I am no stranger to this kind of stuff, so feel free to PM me if you want get some things off your chest.)

Thanks, FNM. I'm well aware of your personal tragedy, I would imagine that we have similar backgrounds in that regard. This is, unfortunately, not my first time at the dance.