Amazon Employees Vent About How a Recent Suicide Attempt Was Handled
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IMO this response by Amazon is the best. Let things slowly sink into obscurity and that way people don't get stupid ideas about getting attention.
Talk about it like "Someone stood on the tracks and killed themselves", and now every suicidal person who sees the track think about that. Many suicides are impulsive acts (helped by a state of mind, but few have the willpower to plan their suicide), so these tiny facts that can influence people in need can kill them. Avoiding specifics of the death can be enough to avoid copycat behavior, because it remains a bit abstract.
Instead, covering it as "we want everyone to know that there are these programs that we have in place for those suffering" (and of course having a real feedback loop). Then if only a couple people go in after reading this, you have done some good!
Our mental state is the combination of many tiny positives and negatives. Contributing even just a small amount might be enough to get someone into proper treatment.
(Amazon should also be doing its own work to figure out if changes are needed. We spend a good chunk of our lives in the workplace)
That should be done regardless of whether or not there are suicides/attempts. That's orthogonal to the original point, which is that attention paid to a suicide tends to encourage copycat suicides.
Just ignore the fact that they existed and you can do a much better job ameliorating these things. Why even give them any news coverage at all or acknowledgement?
When a person close to you dies, you likely want some of these services.
Now, I don't think we should be talking about how these cases happen (because of what you bring up). But people close to the situation do get affected. They hear about it outside the news, and might personally know the person. They deserve help.
You're missing the point. By doing anything out of the ordinary when something like this happens, you're giving it attention and calling it out.
It'd be like making safe driving classes available everytime somebody dies in a drunk driving accident.
These classes and service should exist regardless.
Why this society and these millennials believe they are entitled only to good things, positive experience and rosy road ahead?
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Where in the article did it say that? Rather, a human being decided to try (and fail) at killing themselves for reasons unknown.