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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
No it doesn’t (Hearing about all of these on the news). People (families) deserve some level of privacy with these things.
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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
Curious about the position that the news should cover more suicides
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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Depends, most people try to hide the suicides of their loved ones. So I think reporting it would hurt the surviving members more. I mean would you report gun suicides only?
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I completely understand the need for most families to have privacy at such a time of tragedy, but it’s not as if the news can’t report on suicides without withholding the names of the victims.
The news has no problem reporting on someone who was murdered, even when the victim is a child. Do the families in those cases not want some privacy as well? It’s just bizarre that they’ve drawn this line where suicide is taboo.
I don’t have the stats so I’ll happily stand corrected on this if it turns out to not be accurate but my guess is that there are probably more victims of suicide than murders, rapes, kidnappings and stabbings yet for some reason those stories get all the headlines.
If we want less people to have to go through the tragedy of losing a loved one who committed suicide we have to bring more attention to how much it’s happening and why it’s happening. Bell let’s talk day isn’t going to cut it.