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Trigger warning: suicide Today is world suicide p $Trigger warning: suicide Today is world suicide prevention day. We’ve all seen the statistics climb this year - and sometimes it’s easy to see the numbers without attributing them to real people. Last week a young man was discovered in our local park, having tragically taken his own life. What he must have been going through for that to feel like the only option. He had chosen the method I had planned for myself. Each time I was nearly there, the very last protective factor that stopped me was thinking about someone having to find me. This poor man had even had that last vestige of protection stripped away from him. Yes we should check on our friends, yes we should learn about the chemical imbalances that make someone prone to suicidal ideation and yes we should learn about the signs, but also, we need to be looking further outward, to the society that’s allowed this to happen. Where people live in fear of their basic securities being taken away after a bad month, where the media sensationalises and destabilises ever more to sell papers, where mental health services are so underfunded and oversubscribed that barely a fraction of people who need professional help can access it. We have a systematic problem that is getting worse and worse. I don’t have the answers - I just know that being there for our friends isn’t enough. It’s ESSENTIAL but it’s not enough. We need to find ways, ANY ways within our limited individual power and our significant collective power, to address the structures and institutions that are systematically murdering us.$

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