Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terror attack 'euthanised'

Re:Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terro... by chasil on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:51AM (#33142362)

I am a U.S. citizen, and I don't know how I feel about this.

Suicide is variously reported to be the tenth leading cause of death. Permitted or not, the numbers are enormous.

https://www.healthline.com/health/leading-causes-of-death

I do not live in a jurisdiction where assisted suicide is legal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_suicide_in_the_Unit...

We can judge it to be barbaric, but we cannot stop it.

For as far as I believe, I think we should try to understand it more thoroughly, in the hope of bringing the numbers down.

If we are in denial, we may be overlooking those who can be saved.

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Re:Young woman with PTSD who survived Brussels airport terro... by JoeAltmaier on Sunday October 09, 2022 @11:57AM (#33142415)

I'm not sure how to think about this either.

The statistics show we may be doing OK on this already. Consider: for every suicide death there are 40 that make the attempt but are caught and treated. And nearly 300 that thought about it but didn't (hotline, friend etc intervened?)

https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html

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