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25 January
MoJ launches inquiry after record number of prison suicides in 2016 https://t.co/TQnE7W4UNW
— The Guardian (@guardian) January 25, 2017
Action has to be predicated on 'a record number' - a lower, steady level of people who despair and die doesn't count for as much... :( https://t.co/aMaMXAuHqt
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 25, 2017
These pages have looked at matters arising from the public discussion of suicide in the UK before :
For example, some people declare - as if incontrovertible fact - that writing or talking about 'committing' suicide implies that it is a criminal offence, which was considered in Why can't people write 'commit / committed / commits suicide' ? [from September 2013*].
The assumption is that, if people were not misled by this language into believing that suicide is still a criminal offence, they would be more free to talk about suicidal ideation. (Yet, at the same time (in some sort of doublethink about life), we almost take for granted that something can be made a criminal act (or decriminalized) by Parliament, and therefore that people are relatively capable of finding out for themselves, if it matters, whether something is or is not punishable by the criminal justice system.)
Which brings us to the following Tweets (about presenting data from 2013) :
Uncertain why, but the chosen facts and presentation of this graphic make me feel manipulated : as if women or the over 70s matter less... ? pic.twitter.com/DVN4LRRZv7— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 25, 2017
What of how many people did talk, but *didn't feel listened to* (as statistics have been at around one death by suicide per 2h for ??yrs) ?— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 25, 2017
What reason to ignore how circa 1 in 8 of deaths of males aged 15-34 happen in this way - *how* are they being accidentally poisoned, etc. ? https://t.co/dxmE6III1s— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) January 25, 2017
End-notes :
* Amongst other things, a few months earlier, there was the posting Self-killing : the ultimate act of self-harming ?
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