An army of suicidologists

Or For the suicidal by the suicidal.

1 in 6 in the UK seriously think of killing themselves at some point in their lifetime. 6,000 a year take their life and many more attempt.

These statistics are the most awful ones in the modern world for this simple reason: these are the figures of how many sentient, consciousness organisms want to cease their existence.

I can't explain how bad this. The gift a human being has is conscious thought and self awareness. They have more than animals or anything else in our solar system.

In the developed world many also have wealth and a good standard of life quality. Their basic needs are met but higher needs clearly aren't.

People must understand what it takes for a sentience to want to cease consciousness. It is the greatest pain. The worst suffering. It is not a lack of capacity nor a mental illness. It is hell on Earth - a personal hell - which drives any individual to want to cease their conscious existence.

Conscious existence isn't all about joy and an easy life of course but clearly it is about too much internal, personal pain for someone to want to die. Just one person. That 1 in 6 in a lifetime want to end their life at some point is a damning indictment on everything and every one of us.

There must be a solution and if there isn't then there's a solution. Those who want to die and survive can join an army, an army of suicidologists. These are people cursed with trying to tackle one of the greatest problems in the developed world.

This is not suicide prevention as it is today because this is a dirty technique. This is beyond it. This is ceasing the pain which drives people to want to take their lives and understanding the psyche of individuals and their pains such that they want to cease their conscious existence.

This is no easy task and there is one even harder challenge: applying the lessons learned. Knowing the ethical standards of mental healthcare and current suicide prevention makes me fear what this could involve so there needs to be a strict framework.

Assisted suicide also needs to be legalised. This is an imperative. The suicidal must not be allowed to die alone nor have to use shitty methods. They must not have their wishes implicitly criminalised. Self termination is the ultimate right and it is the highest form of compassion. It already happens in the UK unregulated and with few prosecutions but the 'compassionate' still try to block it and censor information about it.

Sent from my smartphone