However, it is necessary to educate the general public on how important suicide reporting is. While I cannot claim to be an expert on the regulation of news reporting, I can state that talking about it, or directly asking someone with identified warning signs of suicide does not translate into the action being carried out. While this may sound somewhat contradictory, it helps to clarify the type of discussions.
While it is important to inform and disseminate news, we ought to be mindful of the impact that these have on the general public, particularly on suicide survivors and susceptible individuals. Suicide should not be glamorised, nor painted as a quasi-answer to a phase of seeming impasse in one’s life or an escape route for a troubled individual. Avoid the gory details of the act, methods and locations; avoid repeated use of images which display the means or faces of the affected individual.
This may seem like a long shot, considering a government that appears to disregard the importance of health care and the impact on its populace. We can each help to rid the world of this menace by ending the discrimination, reducing the stigma we display towards individuals living with mental illness and their caregivers, dare I say even their health care providers. Thankfully it is not all talk.
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