Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt

Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt by throwaway092834 on Saturday January 25, 2014 @01:53PM (#7121798)

I'm sympathetic to the issue of social equality, but depression resulting in suicide is not a rational process. Addressing class issues will not eradicate this problem. The wealthy become depressed and suicidal too, for example: http://www.ibtimes.com/eric-salvatierra-killed-caltrain-payp...

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Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt by undoware on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:16PM (#7121903)

Yeah, but that just means that those with mental illness -- hi, btw -- probably require more treatment than they've been getting.

A story. Up here in Vancouver, the police recently released a study showing that the thing we did in the nineties -- ending welfare and closing institutions for the severely mentally ill -- actually cost us vastly more, because the police ended up doubling as nurses/counsellors/social workers, and the additional training cost vastly more than the original division of labour.

What is the annual cost of leaving the hurt hanging?

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Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt by throwaway092834 on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:46PM (#7122034)

Yes, I agree we do not provide adequate health care as we ought to.

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Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt by code_duck on Sunday January 26, 2014 @12:20AM (#7123990)

It's a tendency exacerbated in groups by desperate financial situations. For example, the phenomenon of farmer suicides in India.

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Re:Nvidia marketing manager killed during train rescue attempt by walshemj on Saturday January 25, 2014 @06:45PM (#7123061)

Exactly hers a roof top bar in the city in London which is notorious for bankers and city types jumping to their deaths.

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