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I disagree. Preventing suicide, even impulsive suicide, is impossible. I could enumerate all the ways I can see just looking around me but I don't want to ruin

I disagree. Preventing suicide, even impulsive suicide, is impossible. I could enumerate all the ways I can see just looking around me but I don't want to ruin my day and yours. However, seeing that people are scared of this doesn't exactly make me think that society cares about me, it implies they're scared of how unhappy people are and have no idea what to do about it.

lazyasciiart 7y ago
You are wrong. It is quite well established that blocking a specific method of suicide can prevent people from trying. What you say is true in a technical sense but is completely ignorant of the actual ways that humans behave.
- SomeOldThrow 7y ago
  Yes, it can block people from trying that specific method. I have no idea how you would measure the impact on preventing people from trying at all. Do you have a source? I'm curious about how they measured it.
  - smogcutter 7y ago
    This was a quick google away: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/health/blocking-the-paths-to-suicide.html https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/health/blocking-the-paths...
  - astura 7y ago
    https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92319314 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=923193... >Anderson points to another example where simply making a change in people's access to instruments of suicide dramatically lowered the suicide rate. In England, death by asphyxiation from breathing oven fumes had accounted for roughly half of all suicides up until the 1970s, when Britain began converting ovens from coal gas, which contains lots of carbon monoxide, to natural gas, which has almost none. During that time, suicides plummeted roughly 30 percent — and the numbers haven't changed since.
    - SomeOldThrow 7y ago
      Point taken.