Thats not right and the police are called and the hospital personel treat you like your trash. No compassion your already hurting so much that you want to stop your life. Once I was in the emergency room and a young man had overdosed and was vomiting and the nurses were saying to each other I hope he chokes on his vomit and they were just standing there.
2006-07-01 15:53:24 · 17 answers · asked by g-day mate 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
My husband passed away in August after 26 yrs. we ere very close my world stopped that day all other family members have their own lives to go on with. My heart stopped that day and all I want to do is go be with him. Please do not send any religios comments.
2006-07-01 16:05:48 · update #1
hum, good question. having been in the medical field most of my life, i have seen both sides of that issue. if someone wishes to commit suicide, that is their perogotive. other wise, ppl need to know there are people like my self who are non-judgemental and always willing to lend an ear. i can not say that i know anyone who has not thought about suicide, me included, but it is not the answer. i have always found a way to help others which satisfies my desire in life.
with love to all,
paul
iwtjaa1@yahoo.com
2006-07-01 16:11:48 · answer #1 · answered by PRJ 2 · 10⤊ 0⤋
Actually, suicide is illegal. It is considered murder. Attempted suicide is considered attempted murder. But because someone would have to be pretty desturbed to even attempt this, if the money was spent to go to court to send someone to prison, the temporary insanity defense would kick in, and case dismissed and tax money wasted. If they did manage to convict someone, this could send them over the edge to just attempt it again. You can't convict a dead body. Due to all of this, suicide, or attempted suicide, is considered a blue book law. A blue book law is just a law that isn't realy inforced any more, and it would take more money then it is worth, to change it at the state or federal level. In some states, they will avaluate the suicidal person, and court order them to go for treatment and counciling. In extreme cases, they can make you a ward of the state, and keep you under suicide watch in a state mental hospital until you are considered "cured" and no longer deemed a threat to yourself. If you need someone to talk to, there are help lines. good luck
2006-07-01 23:04:29 · answer #2 · answered by lightningviper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
having ANY psychological problem poses a need for an evaluation. Doesn't matter if its suicide or not. Doesn't matter if it's legal or not. (note: committing suicide is not illegal, but some of the means of doing it may be illeagal).
As for your experience with the man in the ER overdosing; maybe there was more to the story than you realize. They may have tried to tube him and he refused. He may have been fighting the nurses before you saw him there. He may have taken the overdose just to get out of going to jail for something else.
2006-07-01 22:59:14 · answer #3 · answered by sheristeele 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People in hospitals are just human. Unfortunate, huh. I have a very ridged view of suicide. I know what it is like to have your life torn into more pieces than you will ever be able to put back together. I too lost my soul mate (love of my life) and wanted more that anything in to lay down and die.
Finally, I guess God got a little fed up with me so He spun me around in my car on a raining morning in the middle of Interstate I-35, during rush hour traffic. (How do I know God was there, because there were 20-30 cars going north and south on I-35 that morning, I wasn't hit a second time - even the car that hit me was not hit a second time). That's when I first realized I was going to have to live in this world with out the physical presence of my soul mate until I join him in heaven, whenever God's ready for me, of course.
I still hurt. The pain never goes away. Only someone who has lost a beloved spouse can understand what your are going through. The best advice I can give you as a widow is do the best you can with living with out your loved one, if you are experiencing suicidal ideations/thoughts contact your local mental health agency, your doctor, your preacher/priest or look into grief groups.
One of the things I do that has kept me sane is I keep a journal to my soul mate. I still talk to him, after 7 years. He still lives in my heart and my thoughts. I had to go on and live life. I know this is what he would have wanted me to do.
Unfortunatly loosing a soul mate only feels like the world has ended. It keeps spinning and we keep going around.
P.S. I still fall in love with him, everytime I look at his picture.
2006-07-01 23:43:34 · answer #4 · answered by crazycat.lady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In most states it is a crime to commit suicide....sounds silly if you succeed. However if you know about a persons intent to commit suicide, that means you are involved in a crime. This happened to a member of our family. He knew that his neighbor was saying that he was going to hang hisself. But he just played it off and his neighbor did succeed and he was charged by the dead mans family as an accessory to murder. COurse that was 20 years ago....don't know if the laws have changed much. Plus a lot of suicide attempts are cries for help. While the nurses in this situation might have sounded inappropriate, maybe they knew more about this young man than you did.
2006-07-01 22:59:33 · answer #5 · answered by yellodaiseys 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because society feels that if you try to take your own life you must have some type of psychological problem, not everyone has experienced a hurt or disappointment so deep that you want to stop living. Until all have experienced that they will continue to have attempted suicides evaluated.
2006-07-01 23:01:31 · answer #6 · answered by Henry D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know anything about police being called but the hospital has and obligation to evaluate the person to be sure they are not a threat to themselves or others. Some of them care and some of them don't. I know that people tend to look at people who overdose differiently intentional or accidental. If you are someone who has access to a lot of pills you must be an addict...
2006-07-01 23:02:08 · answer #7 · answered by crimsonwillow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because nurses,doctors and hospital personal are all pro life.....how would u feel if u try and save people all dat long and some times u cant save some of em then this kids comes along who tried to take his own life.... nothing could be bad enough for the person to take away there own life........
2006-07-01 22:58:42 · answer #8 · answered by Love Exists? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Suicide itself is illegal in most states but if it is successful, then why care who comes? Suicide victims are dead! Attempting suicide however means that person is unstable and a threat to themselves and possibly others so that is why someone (usually a mental health professional) comes to evaluate.
2006-07-01 23:02:05 · answer #9 · answered by sssequoyah 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Because you may be emotionally unstable
2. Because of the stigma still attached to such things...
It angers me that people still have little compassion for those that are hurting so much that they would actually try to end their own lives.
2006-07-01 22:59:37 · answer #10 · answered by Indigo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋