Only a government wonk (or one seeking even more power for an organization wishing it to be a supra-national government) could ever say this:
Suicide is a complex issue and therefore suicide prevention efforts require coordination and collaboration among multiple sectors of society, including the health sector and other sectors such as education, labour, agriculture, business, justice, law, defense, politics, and the media. These efforts must be comprehensive and integrated as no single approach alone can make an impact on an issue as complex as suicide.
Or one that has no clue. As someone who has had to cope, mediate, mitigate, and deal the aftermath of family members who have made such an attempt (and knowing that there is no “fix”) (and being a political blogger), I can’t believe the absolute gall and stupidity of this statement. This is typical of a Big-Government-can-do-everything self-important I-know-better-speak.
First off, suicide is not all that complex in the moment – it is in the now and the person in trouble is NOT thinking about Labour or agriculture or the media or any of the other things mentioned above. It is about a blackness, a miasma, a whirlpool of nihilism that seems to be never ending.
It is about a lack of hope eternal that often even close family relatives and friends cannot pierce with any kind of light. It is a desperation that finally gives up. And no, as the RedState author posits, it isn’t “multiple levels of Government” that can fix this. But hey, Big Government always has to justify its existence by going yet into more nooks and crannies of our lives.
(H/T: RedState)
