Most people thinking about suicide don’t tell anyone

On the worse side, you get sectioned, Ativaned and released in 72 hours and after talking with a psych for a few minutes. You have to deal with the traumatic experience of being sectioned itself as well as the fall out of being unavailable for 72 hours which can mean getting fired for no-showing your job, dealing with child custody logistics, &c.

Most lay people supporting a friend or family member are simply unequipped to handle the severity of a suicidal case without resorting to institutional intervention.

The article's call to action (listening or handing off to specialists) doesn't do anything to disrupt the chain of events that's likely to happen after a suicidal disclosure. Instead, a comprehensive guide to the effect of "What to do if your friend wants to kill themselves" would go so much farther than the advice given.

His summary is that the ones who tell others haven't yet really decided. They're still reaching out for help, for some other way. The ones who have really made the decision, who have given up all hope for an alternative course of action, are the ones who don't say anything.

Because why would they? From their perspective, they have nothing to gain by doing so, and would cause a lot of additional trouble to themselves and their loved ones if they did.

When looking only at suicide worldwide at 50 and above the numbers go up drastically. As in from 30 to 50 the suicide rates is 4x and 50 to 70 again doubles.

I'm a very big supporter of personal freedom, even an unpopular opinion of saying suicide for any adult should legal and available. I think it's a bad choice that shouldn't be done but I think it's an individual choice. This same view I would have on abortion, you shouldn't do it but you should choose.

Thinking about the problem is this way means to prevent suicide we must stop thinking this is something that only groups we consider traditionally as marginalized are doing. When you look at pre-teens through 20's yes it's largely these traditionally marginalized groups of people it affects. Statistically though they are a small percentage of overall suicides. While we should strive to prevent all suicides we need to frame the problem correctly. The vast majority of suicides worldwide are not marginalized people they are traditionally mainstream individuals of society that are doing it. Not just by a small percentage more it is the vast majority of suicides are mainstream non-traditionally marginalized people.

If society wants to prevent suicides we need to take a long hard look at why most seem to be mainstream people who should not be disaffected by society. Continuing to frame the problem as a young people problem or a marginalized people doesn't help reduce the suicide rate. All it does is provide headlines for people to wring their hands and weep over.