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Icare dixit · 11:25 AM

I just thought about this reading posts in another thread. I hope it is not triggering. My judgement might be a bit impaired at the moment so please tell me if it is.

Just better to be safe than sorry:

Possible trigger:

Do you think making attempted suicide illegal (again) could in any way be a deterrent to overdosing?

Now I've begun to think about it, I can imagine it might be. Both impulsive overdosing and thought-out (never well, long enough and from every angle!) attempts.

Wouldn't either a fine which may leave those you leave behind with a considerable debts or a long prison sentence if your attempt fails might give you (maybe just that necessary extra) pause for thought. Nothing in the sense of having the deal with a stricter psychiatric regimen or anything: that might only make you build in extra certainty or make you try it again.

All small things taken together may just help to the extreme: life or dead.

A counterargument may be that prison may seem preferable in some situations.

That and the loom of a stricter psychiatric regimen may mean that it is best to not give any psychiatric care in prison. Can be drastic, but if it helps, shouldn't we do it?

I could of course be very wrong. But the delicacy of the issue shouldn't deter us from finding ways make suicides a thing of the past. Just bought some stuff from a widow whose husband was bipolar, she feeling it was the right thing to give it to somebody else with bipolar, which I find appropriate, kinda beautiful, as well, but it is really something not to romanticise.

Making it illegal might help to prevent it from ever seeming that way. Other considerations aside.

I would prefer it if I won't be chastised for my stupidity if that's what it is. Just—respectfully—say I might be bonkers. I really try not to be in any way inconsiderate and to be respectful. Sometimes I might lash out when treated with disrespect and other people might get hurt. I am very sorry for any such incidents.

It's just a thought.

Edit:

Possible trigger:

A major flaw I overlooked is that one might wait too long calling for ambulance which one would otherwise've called for. So that one is probably not going to work.

Leaves the illegality of suicides, having to pay a very high fine which may be inherited or something like that. Any thoughts?