I think it will take a very long time for this woman to ever see the sun shine again. I’m just not ready to agree that someone should commit suicide just because they are a difficult case.

The person who responded to my first comment thinks there’s an immediate treatment. There isn’t. There’s compassion, there’s keeping the person safe from harm, there are hints of hope. Breaking through the woman’s despair is a fine art that takes time and diligence.
What I suggested about the American system is that a hammer (drugs, involuntary hospitalization) would’ve rained down the poor woman when she probably needs more of a little time, space, and talking.
America’s quick-fix mentality butchers such things oftentimes.

If you visit the political sites you will hear it used all the time by the radicals of each side. All day long they go back and forth with “In answer to your “knee-jerk” remark”. It’s really gotten sickening.

RJS said the doctor did everything he could do. If that is so, where is it referenced at? I didn’t read where he did anything at all, except talk to her for a couple minutes.

Look, the only person we have all heard of to even make a slight comparison to is John Walsh. When his 6 yr. old was stolen from a mall and later found decapitated do you think he or his wife wanted to continue living? He has said he didn’t. I think he wanted to do two things, commit murder and then kill himself. He and his wife both felt terrible guilt over their child (only child at that time) being kidnapped basically from in front his wife’s eyes.

Look where John Walsh is at today and what he has contributed to society. Should he have been told to go kill himself at his lowest point? I don’t think so.

If I couldn’t get through to this woman then I would use all available resources. Doe she have siblings or parents to help her? If so, use them. If not then I would find that friend and use her. Find someone who she will listen too, if not yourself, and coach them.

Death for this woman at this point is the easy answer, making her want to stay alive is the challenge. I’m sorry you don’t think she deserves that.

you’re comment about oberdose letting someone die so they can atleast have an open coffin is laughable. Do you think she gives a shit about that? “Yes, I want to kill myself but let me do it in a way I can look good while I’m laying there dead.” Give me a break!

I’m sorry you feel she has nothing left to qualify her as human anymore. Actually, your post makes me think of something one would read in a James Patterson book and not on a website while talking about REAL people.

Maybe she could become some big wonderful advocate of driver safety and tell her story. That story would get folks attention and make then more careful of driving habits.

We atleast know she has one good friend. So, if nothing else she has that in her corner.

I agree, if I was in her position I surely would want to die also. She would be a medical challenge. But I would think real doctors could be up for a challenge and not just desert someone when they need help the most.

I don’t get where your reference of me not having human feelings are coming from? I don’t believe in euthanasia if that’s what you’re refering too. She didn’t die with the rest of her family for some reason. She needs intense therapy to find that reason.

Without knowing almost any of the facts you have condemned this woman and sentenced her to death. Who the hell are you to think you have that right?

The doctor did everything he could do. You CANNOT make someone want to live.

“Maybe the reason she wasn’t successful at her suicide attempt is because she really didn’t want to be successful?”

Her friend found her. Overdosing (on certain things) can be relatively painless. And it’ll at least let you die so you can have an open coffin, as opposed to, for instance, blowing your brains out. In the UK, in any case, it’s MUCH more difficult to get one’s hands on a firearm anyway. That option is legitimately ruled out.

That leaves… what? Really. Hanging? Surprisingly difficult to do, and certainly not a sure thing. Most people that are suicidal want to leave peacefully.

“All I know is I wouldn’t have turned my back and walked away.”

I would have, and I’m not a doc. But I am a human being, and I relate to her as a fellow human being. Sometimes there is just nothing you can do.

Why people refuse to accept this, I don’t know.

“she in the end does a miserable job of it. Why is that?”

But she didn’t. Her friend found her. Very probably if said friend hadn’t found her, she would have succeeded. Because of that, I don’t see it as a failed suicide.

This woman is just going to do it again. And she will succeed next time. Sometimes the kindest thing you can do is just let someone go who doesn’t want to be here anymore.

I almost want to follow this woman’s story and when she finally does off herself say “See? I told you so.” I believe she truly does want to die, and that this wouldn’t have been a failed suicide had her friend not intervened.

All this nonsense of “Oh I’m not a doctor” is complete BS. You’re a human being, you can at least relate to her on that level. Here’s a shocker: not everything in life can be solved. Not everything has an “answer.” Not in medicine, not in anything. What would you have done? No bullshit “I’m not a doc, I don’t have to think! I just wanna be a retarded knee-jerk reactionist who thinks “something” — whatever the fuck that means — should have been done.”

You come up with that something. Relate to her as a human being. Not from a doctor-patient point-of-view. From that perspective, I think you’ll find a dearth of realistic possibilities.