Here is a post for all of our survivors of suicide in the United Kingdom. While the risk of injury from motor vehicle accidents deservedly receives our attention, automobile manufacturers, road design engineers, and others are constantly striving to make our roads and highways safer. Advertising campaigns urging the use of seat belts and child safety seats have had an impact in reducing the carnage on our roads. Yet, another far more deadly threat of injury and death is largely hidden from public view or discussion. It is, for the most part, seldom discussed until tragedy strikes close to home. It is spoken of in hushed whispers and carries with it a stigma that is particularly cruel to those who are, oftentimes with little warning, exposed to its deadly consequences. The risk of injury and death from this proportionately greater threat is called suicide. It chooses its victims in seemingly haphazard or random fashion. It cuts across all races, nationalities, and socio-economic classes of people. It humbles the rich and poor alike. Many never even see it coming. Those who are made aware of this mental health threat in family and loved ones are often incapable or stymied in their efforts to slow or deter its deadly progression to the point of exhaustion. Does an insidious illness of the mind that causes one to feel compelled to take his or her own life warrant our attention? What if the number of victims claimed by suicide was THREE TIMES HIGHER than those lost in horrific motor vehicle accidents each year? Would THAT get your attention and cause a redoubling of our effort to investigate, research, study, and address the root causes of suicide in our society in a determined effort to ameliorate the devastating consequences of suicide upon our communities? Why, then, the silence? -- Randall P. Robinson rt/uk/213903-suicide-epidemic-wales-combat/
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:51:38 +0000
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