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I'm sympathetic to the issue of social equality, but depression resulting in suicide is not a rational process. Addressing class issues will not eradicate this
by throwaway092834 13y ago
I'm sympathetic to the issue of social equality, but depression resulting in suicide is not a rational process. Addressing class issues will not eradicate this problem. The wealthy become depressed and suicidal too, for example: http://www.ibtimes.com/eric-salvatierra-killed-caltrain-paypal-executive-had-bipolar-disorder-424632 http://www.ibtimes.com/eric-salvatierra-killed-caltrain-payp...
- undoware 13y agoYeah, but that just means that those with mental illness -- hi, btw -- probably require more treatment than they've been getting. A story. Up here in Vancouver, the police recently released a study showing that the thing we did in the nineties -- ending welfare and closing institutions for the severely mentally ill -- actually cost us vastly more, because the police ended up doubling as nurses/counsellors/social workers, and the additional training cost vastly more than the original division of labour. What is the annual cost of leaving the hurt hanging?
- throwaway092834 13y agoYes, I agree we do not provide adequate health care as we ought to.
- walshemj 13y agoExactly hers a roof top bar in the city in London which is notorious for bankers and city types jumping to their deaths.
- code_duck 13y agoIt's a tendency exacerbated in groups by desperate financial situations. For example, the phenomenon of farmer suicides in India.