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psychopomp
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- Jun 19, 2018
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Besides euthanasia and/or physician assisted suicide (baby steps now), what would you like to see changed in terms of the perception and behavior of the public and suicidology/academic community?
To get things started:
1. No more bullshit platitudes (public)
2. More qualitative research. Top 3 Suicidology journals in US only have like 5-6% qualitative studies (research)
3. More empathy, understanding, and allowance of vulnerability (everybody)
4. People to finally take an honest look in the societal mirror and see that imposing life on any human whom we cannot ever fully protect and whom we don't necessarily go out of our ways to provide for is akin to torture. In other words, scarce resources, life is naturally imbalanced, and humans are naturally driven towards their own pursuits for the most part. Which I take with no bitterness. It's just animal/human nature. We also can't feel each other's pain all the time. (Everybody)
5. Academia using reductionist methods and frameworks that only get at a slice of suicidality and fails to encompass the complexity, interplexity, and infinite combinations of people. Aka make research less shitty. (Research)
6. Reductionist diagnosis and treatments that fail to be truly holisitic or as they would say "biopsychosocial" (everybody)
7. Lack of funding. But let's be real, the money isn't coming and it never will (everybody. Also see #4)
8. Accept that people are going to suffer in some of the cruelest ways and there is little we can do to stop it even if we had a Minority Report crime system (everybody). (Granted the default should always be helping people to live, but not forcefully. Regardless most people suffer from the ignorance is bliss and/or bystander effect or are drowning themselves so can't help others let alone themselves).
9. More honesty discussion and acceptance of death and loss in general. (Everybody)
10. No more profiting off of suffering by prophets who get books and speeches and clout by doing nothing more than being a glorified mouth piece (everybody).
To get things started:
1. No more bullshit platitudes (public)
2. More qualitative research. Top 3 Suicidology journals in US only have like 5-6% qualitative studies (research)
3. More empathy, understanding, and allowance of vulnerability (everybody)
4. People to finally take an honest look in the societal mirror and see that imposing life on any human whom we cannot ever fully protect and whom we don't necessarily go out of our ways to provide for is akin to torture. In other words, scarce resources, life is naturally imbalanced, and humans are naturally driven towards their own pursuits for the most part. Which I take with no bitterness. It's just animal/human nature. We also can't feel each other's pain all the time. (Everybody)
5. Academia using reductionist methods and frameworks that only get at a slice of suicidality and fails to encompass the complexity, interplexity, and infinite combinations of people. Aka make research less shitty. (Research)
6. Reductionist diagnosis and treatments that fail to be truly holisitic or as they would say "biopsychosocial" (everybody)
7. Lack of funding. But let's be real, the money isn't coming and it never will (everybody. Also see #4)
8. Accept that people are going to suffer in some of the cruelest ways and there is little we can do to stop it even if we had a Minority Report crime system (everybody). (Granted the default should always be helping people to live, but not forcefully. Regardless most people suffer from the ignorance is bliss and/or bystander effect or are drowning themselves so can't help others let alone themselves).
9. More honesty discussion and acceptance of death and loss in general. (Everybody)
10. No more profiting off of suffering by prophets who get books and speeches and clout by doing nothing more than being a glorified mouth piece (everybody).
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