Both figures for suicide and Corona Virus are tragic, staggering and worrisome yet one has urgency while the other is taken for granted. It seems that we need to have worldwide attention paid to both. Why dies the governor of NY rally the National Guard for a county that has an epidemic if Corona Virus, the world shuts itself down because of a potential that has a lifespan of about 14 days, as does the flu, yet the dangers of suicide we take in stride, and no real call to arms about it.
I understand that people have died from the Corona Virus and that it is a greater risk for people over 60, but what about the suicide rates? Where are we on preventing suicides aside from a hotline or two and no public outcry to stop it? Are not the young as well as the old all vulnerable to this tragedy? Are families not victims of suicide when some loved one commits this act of ending his or her life.
There is a black cloud that forms in the hearts of the survivors as they face their lives without those they cherished, how is this not a form of suicide if they are not counseled may not have the resources to carry on in support of themselves and their family members?
I read all the time of young teenagers who are bullied and commit suicide to escape the heartache imposed upon them from their peers and see how wasteful this is to the world at large, the potential for a scientist or musician, chef or doctor, someone potentially giving something to the world and having them wiped out by their own hand.
The Corona Virus can be deadly, it has the potential to be, but suicide is final when it happens there are no ways out, no short cuts or massive efforts to deny it.
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