Tuesday 6 March 2012
Saturday 3 March 2012
Suicide in the 21st Century
I am so pleased that both David Rathband and his brother Darren have given me reason to write on this subject. It is one close to my heart.
My wife died suddenly 3 years ago and for the two following years I was desperately suicidal. It became my mindset that anyone should have the right to commit suicide, but without the stigma that causes it to be called suicide. I want to consider it an aspect of euthanasia. If someone was dying from a terminal cancer and tormented with pain and symptoms it would be socially acceptable and seen as an option if they wish to end their life. However, if someone is mentally and emotionally tormented, ending a life is stigmatised and not seen as a valid option. Both pains are equally as debilitating, however one is less visible to the outside and less understood. Due to social indoctrination we tend to accept euthanasia more than we do suicide (both as words and deeds) . Unfortunately they cannot be interchangeable because euthanasia is a third party event, something done to/for one, and suicide is done to oneself.
I have come out of my suicidal period now but meaning and purpose to life have left me. I lived for my wife, to be her partner in life, to live my life facilitating her to be the best she could be and sharing her burdens and joys of life together.
If I was to face death right now I would do so happily, knowing I had lived my life doing the best I can and with only one regret - that of starting smoking when I was eight years old. However I am no longer actively seeking my demise, though mood swings do sometimes cause me to reconsider that position.
My suicidal thoughts were brought about by mental trauma which has caused me 3 years of pain and suffering. Why should that not be considered a suitable case for euthanasia?
I have no argument with those who successfully kill themselves. I would never condemn them but nor would I condone their deed. I can positively understand but not approve their deed.
In the case of David Rathband I fear the support he was offered was insufficient. Budget restrictions should be no excuse for lack of service - budgets should be unlimited in health issues. I am not an economist but it would be interesting to see an analysis between the NHS budget cuts in mental health in the Iast few years and the 5 fold increase in the suicide rate.
In David Rathband' and my sort of situation we are encouraged to ask for help, its called taking responsibility for ourselves. However, and probably mainly for men, this is not easy. Calling a crisis line saying 'I want to kill myself' is not easy to do. Words like 'take responsibility' and 'ask for help' are easy to say, but not so easy to do. We (men) suffer throughout life with pride and stereotypical macho image issues, and these are no easier just because we are desperately in need of support. We still cannot ask for help.
Did people consider David Rathband' character as they heard him say 'no I'm great everything is fine'? Or did they only consider his need to take responsibility in asking for help. Mental health workers will state that patients/clients have human rights and that these rights stop them intervening. People have rights for choices and have capacity to make their own decisions however - there is a point where workers can and should intervene - again getting back to the point that society does not perceive suicide to be a choice or an option and the medical powers that be can and do take the right and choice away from people. I don't think it is anyone's right to kill themself. I think it is a privilege, not a right. Knowing David' character, there should, in my opinion, have been forced intervention, or sectioning as it is called, until a full and more accurate assessment of his state of mind could be made.
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Starkey Misses The Point.....
David Starkey, in his usual arrogant and dangerously nationalistic way, has missed the point. Easy to do when you are as egotistical as he is I suppose.
The reason why nations that we 'liberate' hate us is because we try to impose out cultural, social, economical and political values upon them. We did it worldwide in building the 'empire' and we are doing it now in the middle east.
Starkey suffers the same disease as our politicians and mandarins do, that of presumption!
Presumption that what we do as a nation is the right and proper way to do things and live. What all these people fail to notice is that as a nation we are shagged! Always have been and always will be due to our arrogance. Even our democracy is a sham and a mockery of the word.
The reason why nations that we 'liberate' hate us is because we try to impose out cultural, social, economical and political values upon them. We did it worldwide in building the 'empire' and we are doing it now in the middle east.
Starkey suffers the same disease as our politicians and mandarins do, that of presumption!
Presumption that what we do as a nation is the right and proper way to do things and live. What all these people fail to notice is that as a nation we are shagged! Always have been and always will be due to our arrogance. Even our democracy is a sham and a mockery of the word.
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Thursday 1 March 2012
My Workfare Proposal
I am pleased to see that the work experience scheme will now carry no penalties for dropping out of it, if the government can be believed and trusted. There still needs to be tweaks to the scheme and maybe these can follow in the coming months.
I do believe the original scheme was good and potentially, gave hope to many youngsters where there was no realistic hope. Where the government went wrong was in trying to gain support from their friends in the big businesses, not just national concerns, but mega-sized international businesses. These companies don't care about the size of the unemployment queues. Whether people are unemployed or not they still have to eat and spend money; their only interest is in getting their supplies, and their labour, at the best possible price, and free labour is very profitable. I did hear anecdotal evidence that Tesco were replacing paid staff, when they left, with unpaid 'staff'. This is immoral and wrong by any measurement.
The original plan was that this work experience would be done within the public sector (councils, hospitals, police, ambulance services, fire brigade, nationalised industries) not private businesses. I recall also discussions taking place about the viability of setting up a volunteer 'army' along the lines of the Salvation Army and the 'peace corps' in USA. I consider this would be a very equitable system, rather than the one of persecution that we are currently in, and there is more than enough openings for 'work experience' or 'training & retraining' for ALL the unemployed, not just the ( and not the prejudiced system of excluding anyone over 50) youngsters and without the need to lay off fully employed staff.
Whatever type of system of 'workfare' is adopted it must be clear upon both the rights and responsibilities of those taking part in the scheme. The interests of the participating public bodies must be secure and safeguarded.
This would also be an extremely easy system to setup.
All the public bodies could now have all the staff they require and staff all the projects that have been put on hold due to lack of funding for manpower.
The benefits? Clean streets, well tended parks, more regular street cleaning, more parking enforcement, well staffed town halls; extra hospital porters, doctors and nurses, more hospital administrative staff; catering staff for canteens which were cut due to budget cuts, more special police officers, traffic wardens, administrative staff in police stations, more paramedics and patient transport staff. This has not of course included all the charity shops that need staff, all the various voluntary organisations that are always short staffed in so many fields.
There is so much scope for so much good, and it is an opportunity that would cost nothing to implement; if the government lets it go to waste it will not be addressed for another 20 years. Wasteful unemployment can be a thing of the past.
I do believe the original scheme was good and potentially, gave hope to many youngsters where there was no realistic hope. Where the government went wrong was in trying to gain support from their friends in the big businesses, not just national concerns, but mega-sized international businesses. These companies don't care about the size of the unemployment queues. Whether people are unemployed or not they still have to eat and spend money; their only interest is in getting their supplies, and their labour, at the best possible price, and free labour is very profitable. I did hear anecdotal evidence that Tesco were replacing paid staff, when they left, with unpaid 'staff'. This is immoral and wrong by any measurement.
The original plan was that this work experience would be done within the public sector (councils, hospitals, police, ambulance services, fire brigade, nationalised industries) not private businesses. I recall also discussions taking place about the viability of setting up a volunteer 'army' along the lines of the Salvation Army and the 'peace corps' in USA. I consider this would be a very equitable system, rather than the one of persecution that we are currently in, and there is more than enough openings for 'work experience' or 'training & retraining' for ALL the unemployed, not just the ( and not the prejudiced system of excluding anyone over 50) youngsters and without the need to lay off fully employed staff.
Whatever type of system of 'workfare' is adopted it must be clear upon both the rights and responsibilities of those taking part in the scheme. The interests of the participating public bodies must be secure and safeguarded.
This would also be an extremely easy system to setup.
All the public bodies could now have all the staff they require and staff all the projects that have been put on hold due to lack of funding for manpower.
The benefits? Clean streets, well tended parks, more regular street cleaning, more parking enforcement, well staffed town halls; extra hospital porters, doctors and nurses, more hospital administrative staff; catering staff for canteens which were cut due to budget cuts, more special police officers, traffic wardens, administrative staff in police stations, more paramedics and patient transport staff. This has not of course included all the charity shops that need staff, all the various voluntary organisations that are always short staffed in so many fields.
There is so much scope for so much good, and it is an opportunity that would cost nothing to implement; if the government lets it go to waste it will not be addressed for another 20 years. Wasteful unemployment can be a thing of the past.
Todays News from the Daily Mail....
Parties unite against secret injustice
One does have to wonder at the antics of Ken Clarke. Is this a case of a mentally fumbling politician who has no clear identity of his political identity? or maybe early onset dementia?
At one moment he espouses extreme views like secret trials, the next moment he is wanting to reduce jail times for offenders for rapists.
C'mon Mr Clarke, you have a had a profitable (if unremarkable) time expanding your girth at our expense, sit back and have some more biccies with your cocoa.
Doctors 'should have the right to kill unwanted or disabled babies at birth as they are not a real person'
Can we lock this woman up for attempted murder. She is a disgrace to humanity.
Rebekah Brooks 'had her phone hacked twice a week
Was this the hold she had over the Murdoch' and wielded fearlessly to rise to such a position of power? Or is this another smoke screen? If it was the hold she had - it might well stop the rumours that she was sleeping with the old toad and/or his son.
Bribing public officials is illegal and morally wrong. But it's the suborning our politicians that's truly toxic
Chicken / Egg. I don't think our politicians need any help to be the scumbags that they are!!
One does have to wonder at the antics of Ken Clarke. Is this a case of a mentally fumbling politician who has no clear identity of his political identity? or maybe early onset dementia?
At one moment he espouses extreme views like secret trials, the next moment he is wanting to reduce jail times for offenders for rapists.
C'mon Mr Clarke, you have a had a profitable (if unremarkable) time expanding your girth at our expense, sit back and have some more biccies with your cocoa.
Doctors 'should have the right to kill unwanted or disabled babies at birth as they are not a real person'
Can we lock this woman up for attempted murder. She is a disgrace to humanity.
Rebekah Brooks 'had her phone hacked twice a week
Was this the hold she had over the Murdoch' and wielded fearlessly to rise to such a position of power? Or is this another smoke screen? If it was the hold she had - it might well stop the rumours that she was sleeping with the old toad and/or his son.
Bribing public officials is illegal and morally wrong. But it's the suborning our politicians that's truly toxic
Chicken / Egg. I don't think our politicians need any help to be the scumbags that they are!!
sub·orn
[suh-bawrn] verb (used with object)
1.
to bribe or induce (someone) unlawfully or secretly to perform some misdeed or to commit a crime.
2.
Law .
a.
to induce (a person, especially a witness) to give false testimony.
b.
to obtain (false testimony) from a witness.
This woman deserves a life sentence without parole as do ALL who steal from vulnerable people or steal from the state purely for greed!
Wednesday 29 February 2012
Faux sacrificial lambskins.....
Rebekah Brooks and now James Murdoch have both been sacrificed upon the altar of that control freak megalomaniac god Rupert Murdoch.
Though it is difficult to decide whether he is suffering from megalomania or is just an evil bastard. I suspect the later because his power and wealth are not delusional and he doesn't have a lust or craving for power - he HAS the power!!!
Though it is difficult to decide whether he is suffering from megalomania or is just an evil bastard. I suspect the later because his power and wealth are not delusional and he doesn't have a lust or craving for power - he HAS the power!!!
However, both sacrifices were in fact illusional I am sure. One does have to wonder who, within the boundaries of Westminster, threatened to blow the lid off the whole business if young James didn't 'move on' and be made to appear to be ridden with guilt and remorse, and unable to stay in this country. Guilty men always run don't they?
What surprises me is Rupert is creating all these smokescreens to try and divert attention from the world discovering just how deep in the sewer he lives!!
Well I for one wont fall for it!! Next step, maybe a Robert Maxwell type disappearance? Lets see.
Todays Round-up from Huffington Post UK, The Independent, and the Daily Mail...
Ban Patronising Language In Care of Elderly
What a load of bbbbbbbb..... balderdash!!! The only two things offensive is the use of 'bed-blocker' and the attitude that we all have to be nice to everyone all the time. It is just so unnatural you soft-headed do-gooders!!! And why have you not included such terms as 'Pop' or 'Dad' or 'Old-stick', Grandad' - oh its because your prejudiced against men is it? Pah!!!!
We won't give US advance warning of Iran strike, says Israel
I am pleased to see an Amercican President who is prepared to not moronically and automatically expressing their support for Israel. Obama obviously doesn't live in fear of US jews - certainly the first President in my lifetime who isn't a puppet for the sharks of Manhattan and Washington.
Israel gets no support from me since I saw them use a targeted missile to blow up a disabled man in a wheelchair and brag about it unrepentantly. And no it makes no difference to me that the man was a terrorist leader - that was unforgivable.
Science vs God
Have you noticed how someone who opposes belief in God is a scientist, or an evolutionist, but someone who believes is in God is religious or nutcase?
Have you also noticed how people who do not believe in a deity are never asked to prove it - but say you do believe and the demands to prove it are incessant!!
I consider non-belief as much a religion as belief - it is a system for lifestyle - neither can proved or dis-proved because both are matters of faith!
'It makes me happy when I can make someone angry'
Only one thing to say to this story: Broadmoor!!
You definitely can't park here!
Only one thing to say to this story: Broadmoor!!
What a load of bbbbbbbb..... balderdash!!! The only two things offensive is the use of 'bed-blocker' and the attitude that we all have to be nice to everyone all the time. It is just so unnatural you soft-headed do-gooders!!! And why have you not included such terms as 'Pop' or 'Dad' or 'Old-stick', Grandad' - oh its because your prejudiced against men is it? Pah!!!!
We won't give US advance warning of Iran strike, says Israel
I am pleased to see an Amercican President who is prepared to not moronically and automatically expressing their support for Israel. Obama obviously doesn't live in fear of US jews - certainly the first President in my lifetime who isn't a puppet for the sharks of Manhattan and Washington.
Israel gets no support from me since I saw them use a targeted missile to blow up a disabled man in a wheelchair and brag about it unrepentantly. And no it makes no difference to me that the man was a terrorist leader - that was unforgivable.
Science vs God
Have you noticed how someone who opposes belief in God is a scientist, or an evolutionist, but someone who believes is in God is religious or nutcase?
Have you also noticed how people who do not believe in a deity are never asked to prove it - but say you do believe and the demands to prove it are incessant!!
I consider non-belief as much a religion as belief - it is a system for lifestyle - neither can proved or dis-proved because both are matters of faith!
'It makes me happy when I can make someone angry'
Only one thing to say to this story: Broadmoor!!
You definitely can't park here!
Only one thing to say to this story: Broadmoor!!
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