it becomes a crisis. We wonder if we’re responsible and to what degree. What could we have done different? Someone dying from car accident or heart attack is a tragedy, but a suicide is a crisis. Everyone freaks out for a month.
We do? I’ve never heard anyone do more than say “oh, well that’s sad” and that’s just to be nice.
Well, to be fair, I don’t have a peer reviewed report. It’s one of those things confirmed by a run of anecdotes, much like the phenomenon of miscarrying mothers blaming the Hell out of themselves, even when there’s clearly no rational reason they could be at personal fault.
Informed by anecdotes, it makes sense. Someone dying from a medical issue or an accident is a lot more happenstance, where a suicide is also a statement, even when it’s not accompanied by a suicide message. More so in that it happens in different regions and among different demographics, sometimes by a wide margin. It implies nurture (contrast nature, like genetics) is a huge factor, and people off themselves when society treats them like shit.
So yes, there appears to be a lot more introspection. A suicide involves more and wider grief than falling off a ladder or having a stroke, more of the time. Or at least it seems so when you research incidents of suicides. Since we don’t budget harm research and disease control as much as we used to, we have to guess more and rely on less data.
We do? I’ve never heard anyone do more than say “oh, well that’s sad” and that’s just to be nice.
Well, to be fair, I don’t have a peer reviewed report. It’s one of those things confirmed by a run of anecdotes, much like the phenomenon of miscarrying mothers blaming the Hell out of themselves, even when there’s clearly no rational reason they could be at personal fault.
Informed by anecdotes, it makes sense. Someone dying from a medical issue or an accident is a lot more happenstance, where a suicide is also a statement, even when it’s not accompanied by a suicide message. More so in that it happens in different regions and among different demographics, sometimes by a wide margin. It implies nurture (contrast nature, like genetics) is a huge factor, and people off themselves when society treats them like shit.
So yes, there appears to be a lot more introspection. A suicide involves more and wider grief than falling off a ladder or having a stroke, more of the time. Or at least it seems so when you research incidents of suicides. Since we don’t budget harm research and disease control as much as we used to, we have to guess more and rely on less data.