What’s so civilised about a couple killing themselves?

A national hysteria over suicide rates in Wales, dismay in Northern Ireland over suicides among young mothers, and alarm throughout the British Isles over the incidence of young men taking their own lives. That’s the norm. That’s how our society responds to suicide. It’s an emergency. And that’s the way it should be. No one should have to have their bank balance examined, or their IQ measured, before we regard their killing themselves as anything other than a failure of the way our society functions. Belfast Telegraph