Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Invisible Suicide Prevention Week

Invisible Suicide Prevention Week » Secondhand Smoke | A First Things Blog: When I was practicing law full time from the mid 1970s into the 1980s, there was tremendous on emphasis suicide prevention. Hotlines proliferated, anti suicide billboards were ubiquitous, and a great deal of attention was paid to the issue throughout society.

Then, the assisted suicide movement began arguing that some suicides were good. The corrosive effect of the movement, among other factors, has enervated the suicide prevention movement, to the point that when someone sent me a suicide threat on email several years ago, I couldn’t find a prevention center to help him in his area code!

And now, Suicide Prevention Week has come and almost gone, without making a sound.

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