We have established that suicidal people should be held naked (or with an apron) in solitary isolation in a padded white room and saddled with medical bills larger than a four-year college tuition. That'll help'em.
One problem with treatment modalities is that they ignore material conditions and treat everything as dysfunction. Lots of people are looking for a way out not because of some kind of physiological clinical depression, but because they've driven themselves into a social & economic dead-end and they don't see how they can improve. More suicidal people than not, would cease to be suicidal if you handed them $180,000 in concentrated cash, and a pardon for their crimes, and a cute neighbor complimenting them, which successfully neutralizes a majority of socioeconomic problems.
We deal with suicidal ideation in some brutal ways, ignoring the material consequences. I can't recommend suicide hotlines, for example, because it's come out that a lot of them concerned with liability call the cops, who come in and bust the door down, pistol whip the patient, and send them to jail, where they spend 72 hours and have some charges tacked on for resisting arrest (at this point they lose their job). Why not just drone strike them?
What is "concentrated cash"? Do you have to dilute it down to standard issue bills before spending it? Someone hands you 5 lbs of gold, and have to barter with people to use it?
"He didn't need the money. He wasn't sure he didn't need the gold." (an Isaac Asimov short story)
> More suicidal people than not, would cease to be suicidal if ...
> We have established that suicidal people should be held naked (or with an apron) in solitary isolation in a padded white room and saddled with medical bills larger than a four-year college tuition. That'll help'em.
The one dude that used the money to build a self-murder machine and then televised it would ruin it for everyone though. :s
The reality is most systems are designed to cover asses more than meet needs, because systems get abused a lot - by many different definitions, including being used as scapegoats by bad actors.
One problem with treatment modalities is that they ignore material conditions and treat everything as dysfunction. Lots of people are looking for a way out not because of some kind of physiological clinical depression, but because they've driven themselves into a social & economic dead-end and they don't see how they can improve. More suicidal people than not, would cease to be suicidal if you handed them $180,000 in concentrated cash, and a pardon for their crimes, and a cute neighbor complimenting them, which successfully neutralizes a majority of socioeconomic problems.
We deal with suicidal ideation in some brutal ways, ignoring the material consequences. I can't recommend suicide hotlines, for example, because it's come out that a lot of them concerned with liability call the cops, who come in and bust the door down, pistol whip the patient, and send them to jail, where they spend 72 hours and have some charges tacked on for resisting arrest (at this point they lose their job). Why not just drone strike them?