@gulfgal98 I highly doubt these are suicides. All were involved in child abuse/sexual abuse organizations. The commonality of the method seems a message to me.

Kate Spade, Anthony Bourdain, and the younger sister of Queen Maxima of the Netherlands. All of these suicides were by hanging, which I find quite odd. Hanging comes in number 3 after poisoning or firearm suicides for women. I cannot help but think there is something very odd that most of the recent prominent suicides have been by hanging. Robin Williams, L'Wren Scott, Chris Cornell, and Chester Bennington all hung themselves too.

@thanatokephaloides @thanatokephaloides
the first method I would try, since I have a KCl prescription (lowers blood pressure - too many and your heart stops beating), would be to swallow the whole big bottle, washed down with wine or brandy. Hanging? Ugh! Slitting wrists - Ugh!

I understand stopping pain, especially if your condition is incurable, but deliberately painful death indicates to me a feeling that the victim deserves to be hurt.

Another reason that this suicide epidemic will continue to be ignored is that 100% of the blame is put onto the victim. The idea that the victim was in his right mind is never, and can never, be considered.

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Everyone who suffers any sort of chronic pain considers suicide, often on a daily basis or even more frequently. Any chronic pain sufferer who tells you otherwise is lying. And these folks are in their right mind; they just want the pain to go away.

Colorado, along with several other States, now allows certain physicians to prescribe medications to end the lives of those whose pain has become so intractable that these lives are unlivable.

The idea of rational suicide, repugnant as it may be to certain Christians, is beginning to take hold in Western culture. And it's about time.

@The Liberal Moonbat

...the past tense of 'hang', when speaking of the suicide/execution method, is in fact "hanged".

@Pluto's Republic
UBI can easily be perverted into a trap. Make the amount too low and it'll be used against us - for the poor it will be eaten up by increased unavoidable (for example housing) costs, for the middle class there will be pressures (even outright coercion) to simply spend the "stimulus". The result will turn out to be an increase in inequality and an enrichment of the uberwealthy, with the corruption and opresssion that entails - exactly the opposite of what we need.

Universal Basic Income.

I know it sounds simplistic, but sometimes cures are just that.

When I did psychological research for a time, I took an unauthorized step to help me speed my way through triage. I would ask each subject: "Do you have any problems that $100,000 will not solve?" It was very rare to hear a "yes." That happened maybe twice. Those were people with organic mental illnesses.

UBI allows people to escape not all, but most types of situational mental illness. It allows them the dignity to re-engage with society and their community and to become productive.

@Mark from Queens

I would add that there's been a spate of NYC cab drivers who have been committing suicide at alarming rates because of the impact of Uber/Lyft.

I haven't been back to NYC in 5 years and had no idea the impact Uber/Lyft has had on the taxi cab industry. I also can't imagine why anyone living in Manhattan would go to the trouble of ordering a car thru an app when they can walk to the curb and lift up their arm. Rush hour not withstanding.

After Trip to Gaza, Anthony Bourdain Accused World of Robbing Palestinians of Their Basic Humanity.

I've liked him since his rough and tumble divulging in "Kitchen Confidential." He really exposed all that goes in behind that back swivel door of restaurants that all-too-often remains obscured, especially in these past few decades of food worship and eating for sport popularized by the Food Channel. I walked away appreciating many aspects, the high intensity of the work in very hot conditions to the great admiration he had for migrant workers from places like Mexico and Bangladesh, of whom he makes pretty clear make possible almost all of American dining these days.

Since he's become this huge celebrity I stopped following him. There was, however, a really poignant segment I happen to see with him sitting around a table with renegade chefs in Paris. And they were all talking about how so much of cuisine has been hijacked by catering to the wealthy, therefore making so much of it unavailable to the masses. These chefs were taking back the idea of making good cooking available to the 99% in ways that were fulfilling to both proprieters and customers, with one way being small, communal style dining. It was fascinating and inspiring. Like being at an Occupy meeting or something. Wish I could find it.

Thanks Anthony.

There's so much to say about suicide; it's something that always gets swept under the rug in America, whether it's vets or the economically disenfranchised or mentally ill folks - all subjects too taboo for our soft and don't-want-to-be-inconvenienced culture.

I would add that there's been a spate of NYC cab drivers who have been committing suicide at alarming rates because of the impact of Uber/Lyft. Started to write it up as an essay. But like everything else for me personally I just don't have the time with the relentless responsibilities of being a stay at home Dad.

@Mark from Queens
It's hard to imagine it without the wall to wall yellow taxis.

After Trip to Gaza, Anthony Bourdain Accused World of Robbing Palestinians of Their Basic Humanity.

I've liked him since his rough and tumble divulging in "Kitchen Confidential." He really exposed all that goes in behind that back swivel door of restaurants that all-too-often remains obscured, especially in these past few decades of food worship and eating for sport popularized by the Food Channel. I walked away appreciating many aspects, the high intensity of the work in very hot conditions to the great admiration he had for migrant workers from places like Mexico and Bangladesh, of whom he makes pretty clear make possible almost all of American dining these days.

Since he's become this huge celebrity I stopped following him. There was, however, a really poignant segment I happen to see with him sitting around a table with renegade chefs in Paris. And they were all talking about how so much of cuisine has been hijacked by catering to the wealthy, therefore making so much of it unavailable to the masses. These chefs were taking back the idea of making good cooking available to the 99% in ways that were fulfilling to both proprieters and customers, with one way being small, communal style dining. It was fascinating and inspiring. Like being at an Occupy meeting or something. Wish I could find it.

Thanks Anthony.

There's so much to say about suicide; it's something that always gets swept under the rug in America, whether it's vets or the economically disenfranchised or mentally ill folks - all subjects too taboo for our soft and don't-want-to-be-inconvenienced culture.

I would add that there's been a spate of NYC cab drivers who have been committing suicide at alarming rates because of the impact of Uber/Lyft. Started to write it up as an essay. But like everything else for me personally I just don't have the time with the relentless responsibilities of being a stay at home Dad.