Remember HRC's nonsensical slogan "Zero Suicide"? Americans' obsession with suicide prevention is morbid. When someone hurts or tries to kill herself, it doesn't necessarily mean she absolutely wants to end her life. she could be just signalling her desperation.
But try that in the US. Even if you merely hurt yourself, the medical people nearly always interpret it as suicide ideation and try to lock you up. On the contrary, the Japanese traditionally see suicide as an honorable way out of an impossible personal situation.
The fact is that suicide and self-injury have always been part of human nature. Trying to stamp out such practices is like trying to stamp out prostitution -- it's simply not going to work. If someone wants to end her life, the government has no right to intervene.
Now that Big Psychiatry has successfully stigmatized these practices, suicide has become something you simply cannot fail -- or you *will* be deprived of your essential liberty, temporarily or indefinitely. How is that constitutional?
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