Suicide prevention: looking past convention

Writing lazy language won’t prevent suicide wasn’t the start point and certainly wasn’t the end point of an exploration of why suicide prevention is stuck in a stasis; people kill themselves and they do it in high numbers. One can’t wish with suicide prevention in order to make it so; it would be impossible to categorically stop … Continue reading Suicide prevention: looking past convention →

Lazy language won’t prevent suicide

After my father took his own life in 2009 I tried to bargain with the circumstances presented to me. What could I have done? What should I have not done? For an eleven-year old facing death for the first time, so violent and intimate, the emotional assault resulted in medical shock. My faculties shut down … Continue reading Lazy language won’t prevent suicide →