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> Life is not about hedonism, not about maximizing pleasure experienced Who are you to tell anyone what life is about? I don't necessarily agree with the acti

> Life is not about hedonism, not about maximizing pleasure experienced Who are you to tell anyone what life is about? I don't necessarily agree with the actions of her family and doctors, especially as she was so young, but is it really just to want to condemn someone to lifetime of reliving their trauma? Some people can never get over their past trauma, and they carry it their entire life. It it just to say that they must live their entire life in pain until they die of some other cause, just so that their friends and family don't feel upset because they chose to end their own life? Or at some point, do we say "we did everything they could, maybe this is for the best"?

DanBC 7y ago
There are ways of providing mental health services that are trauma-informed, that don't require vulnerable people to be imprisoned in stark rooms, stripped of their clothing and wearing anti-ligature clothing. A robust package of intensive trauma-informed community mental health treatment could probably have helped her. Here's a blog about it. Rotten Apples, on Poisoned Branches, in Toxic Orchards: https://thediagnosisofexclusion.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/rotten-apples-on-poisoned-branches-in-toxic-orchards/ https://thediagnosisofexclusion.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/rot... Out of Sight and Out of Mind: https://thediagnosisofexclusion.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/product-placement-out-of-sight-and-out-of-mind/ https://thediagnosisofexclusion.wordpress.com/2018/10/10/pro... When the Help Hurts more than the hurting does: https://thediagnosisofexclusion.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/when-the-help-hurts-more-than-the-hurting-does/ https://thediagnosisofexclusion.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/whe... (and a bunch more on that site).