Suicide
Remember,
you belong,
so
stay strong.
There are
people who
care about you, and there are
people who can
help you. Don't allow the fear of
stigma stop you from
reaching out.
Almost everyone who has ever
lived has had
suicidal thoughts and felt
like
dying, or felt like they didn't want to live
anymore. Suicide is not normal, but
it does happen, too much and too often.
So
don't feel bad
or feel broken or
feel alone. You have to understand that this is
something that you can control. But you will have to put in some time and effort,
because there are a
combination of different
things that can cause suicidal thoughts. So this is a learning
process. You will need to have access to knowledge and information and receive
some kind of
guidance. And if you need to rely on medication to help you
get through, just remember that medication is only a temporary relief
which
may help you buy some time until you can get access to knowledge and
information and get access to some
healthy guidance.
Just remember, you still need to learn and educate yourself because
knowledge does not
come in a pill. It's like overcoming an
addiction. It takes
learning the right things at the right time.
You also have to be aware of yourself and your abilities, as well as your
vulnerabilities. You are in control of your
life a lot more than you think.
You don't have to die to
be free, and you really need to believe that. The good
news is that there are people who can help you and who want to help you. And
we will not stop unless we know that you're safe.
No one gets left behind.
For every one person who commits suicide, there are around 280 people
who decide not to.
Statistics.
Are you in danger? Do you have a life
threatening illness? If the answer is no, then you are most likely
experiencing a momentary lapse of reasoning. Maybe you have a temporary loss of purpose,
or a
temporary loss of self. This is more than a temporary loss of awareness,
it's a
temporary loss of reality. There could be a small malfunction in your
operating system. So corrections are needed. There are connections that
have been lost that need to be reconnected.
Suicide Help Resources
988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.
Suicide Prevention Lifeline - 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
- (en español: 1-888-628-9454; deaf and hard of hearing: 1-800-799-4889)
or the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
Crisis Call Center -
Crisis Text Line -
Suicide Hotlines -
Samaritans
we're here 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
988 received over
1.7 million calls, texts and chats in the first five months since
mid-July 2022 when it started. The 988 number is modeled on the
911 system and is designed to be easy to
remember and a quick number that connects people who are suicidal or in
any other
mental health crisis
to a trained mental health professional.
988 Suicide and Crisis
Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides
free and confidential
emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or
emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States. In
November, the state of Washington launched the
Native and Strong Lifeline, the first suicide crisis line for American
Indian and Alaska Natives in the state, as part of the national 988
network. People dialing 988 in the state can choose to speak to Native
crisis counselors, who are trained in
crisis intervention
support, with particular emphasis on cultural and traditional
practices related to healing. The federal government has invested close to
$1 billion into the 988 Lifeline, including a little more than $500
million in the
federal spending bill. And many states have passed legislation to fund
the 988 network. Too many
republicans voted against the bill.
Veterans Crisis Line -
22 Too Many -
Gallant Few -
Save -
Support Groups -
Not One More Vet
Veterinary Support -
Gun
Control
Operation
Reach Out -
App
-
Suicide Prevention App -
Safe HorizonText-Only
Hotline Listings For Suicide Prevention & Emotional Crisis.
Samaritan’s Crisis Hotline:
1-212-673-3000 -
Lean 0n Me (646) 798-4121
The Trevor Project Trevor Lifeline: 1-866-488-7386 /
Text “Trevor” to 1-202-304-1200 to connect with a skilled support line responder.
Crisis
Negotiation -
Crisis Intervention
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Interventions -
Rapport -
Empathy -
Active Listening
Community
Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment or CARE connects a person in
crisis with a court-ordered care plan for up to 12 months, with the
possibility to extend for an additional 12 months.
Body Mind Connections
Suicide is
stress related. No one
says "I feel great today, I think I'll kill myself". People are under some
type of stress, internally and externally.
When you feel bad, you have bad thoughts. When you feel good, you
usually have
good thoughts. When bad things happen, bad thoughts can
happen, when good things happen, usually good thoughts are sure to follow.
But
perception varies from person to person. So we always need to confirm
our thoughts and feelings with other people. And it has to be someone who
understands what you are experiencing. This way you can have better
accuracy and a better understanding of your situation. A
smoke alarm needs
to make a sound.
Anxiety -
Suicide Statistics -
Assisted SuicideThere are
also people who slowly kill themselves with
bad habits. A slow
self-destruction that can go years unnoticed until it's to late. Even
cells in our body are programmed to self-destruct.
Prevention of Depression and Suicide -
Suicide
Prevention Resource Center (SPRC) -
Henry Ford
American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention -
How would you talk a Stranger off the Ledge?
Epidemiology of Suicide (PDF) -
Suicide Severity Rating Scale -
Interventions
(mental health)
Intervention Program that includes a personalized app could make a
difference attempted suicides. The app, called BRITE, prompts them daily
to rate their mood and offers personalized recovery strategies when
they're distressed. Learning some of the patient's favorite activities and fond memories.
The
Hurricane (youtube) - A philosophy of effective and supportive
listening. We recommend watching at least twice.
Center
Stone full range of mental health, addiction and
intellectual and developmental disabilities services.
We need to treat
suicidal tendencies like we would treat a
parasite or a
virus. Because
suicide is like a virus, and it's
parasitic
in nature. It's like having an infection, or having an
allergic
reaction to
food
or something. And that something is high jacking the brain.
Suicide can also be a side effect from medications, drugs or
substances that create a
Toxicity
in the brain, which could lower a person's impulse control, creating an
addiction like behavior that traps a person in a
continuous feedback loop of
Depression or
Anxiety,
which can be sometimes triggered by a
traumatic experience.
Suicide is usually a combination of things, and if you don't
know the combination, then you may stay locked up in the mind and be unable to free yourself.
And this is when people believe that death is the answer, and that suicide solves their problems, which
it does not. Because the parasitic virus of suicide lives on.
Just because you die, this does not save anyone else from suicide. It
most cases, it spreads suicide like a virus. There has to be a
systems
check. Are you sleeping enough? Are you eating the right foods
in the right amounts? Do you feel different then normal? Have
you seen a doctor? Have you been correctly analyzed? Has someone treated
you? Do you have a safe place to rest? Do you feel safe being alone?
Do you have someone to talk to? If you don't have a
terminal
illness, then what is the logic in dying?
More questions to ask? We have vaccines for viruses, so we need a vaccine
for suicidal tendencies, one that reconnects the person with
reality, instead of helping them to escape reality. Your life is
not in danger, your life is not void of opportunities, you have
plenty to look forward to. So why does reasoning escape the
minds of suicidal tendencies. It's hard to know what people were
truly thinking when they committed suicide, especially after the
fact. So the people who recover are the people who can save others.
By back tracking to the moments that lead to suicidal
tendencies, we can examine how this parasitic virus manifests in
a persons mind, and tricks them into taking an action that makes
no sense. We can easily fool ourselves, and we can easily fool
ourselves even more when we are infected with some sort of a
virus. You have an infection that is treatable. But we need more
public awareness, and more help from schools. And we need more help from the
media, a media that does more harm then good
most of the time. We can solve
this problem, but it will take more involvement, more education,
better treatment alternatives, and more highly skilled
healthcare workers. There are a lot of things in our world that can high jack our minds. It's
time to take back the controls.
The brain cells that slow us down when we're sick. A study pinpoints
the cluster of neurons that tell mice to eat, drink, and move around less
when they're fighting bacterial infections. Shortly after an injection of
LPS, there was a spike in activity in a brainstem region known as the
dorsal vagal complex, among a population of neurons expressing the
neuropeptide ADCYAP1. To confirm that they had found the right brain
cells, the researchers then activated those neurons in healthy mice and
they found that the animals ate, drank, and moved around less. In
contrast, when the ADCYAP1 neurons were deactivated , the effect of LPS on
these behaviors was significantly reduced.
Parasitic Behaviors
Parasite
is an animal or a plant that lives in or on a
host of another animal or plant. The parasite
obtains nourishment from
the host
without benefiting the host or killing the host. A parasite is a
leech like follower who
sponges
off another or hangs around a host without
reciprocation or
without giving back what it takes from the
host, so as to gain an advantage over the host by creating weaknesses in
the host so that the host is more
vulnerable to being
controlled or
manipulated.
For example: There are fungi that turn ants
into zombies, hairworms that compel crickets to jump into water, and
tapeworms that force shrimp to swarm in groups—all to help the parasites
spread to their next
hosts. The crypt-keeper wasp does has one of the few
known
hyper-manipulator parasites that
manipulate the
behavior
of other manipulative parasites.
Humans are hosts to nearly 300 species of parasitic worms and over 70
species of protozoa, some derived from our primate ancestors and some
acquired from the animals we have domesticated or come in contact with
during our relatively short history on Earth.
Brain Hacking -
Controlling Thoughts -
Microbes -
Viruses
Parasitoid is an
organism that lives in close association with its host and
at the host's
expense, and which sooner or later kills it.
Hyperparasite is
a parasite whose host is a parasite and sometimes, hyperparasites can be
parasitized by other hyperparasites, creating hierarchies of
bodysnatching
that can grow to four tiers.
Viruses.
The Body
Snatchers is a science fiction story where plantlike pods
replace
sleeping people with
perfect physical duplicates with all the same
knowledge, memories, scars, etc. but are
incapable of human emotion or
feeling. The human victims disappear forever. The duplicates live only
five years and cannot sexually reproduce; consequently, if unstopped, they
will quickly
turn Earth into a dead planet and move on to the next world.
One of
the
duplicate invaders claims this is what humans do – use up resources,
wipe out indigenous populations, and destroy ecosystems in the name of
survival.
Too many Corporations
are Parasites.
Parasitism is a
non-mutual relationship between species, where one species, the parasite,
benefits at the expense of the other, the
host.
Toxoplasmosis is
a parasitic disease caused by Toxoplasma gondii. Infections with
toxoplasmosis usually cause no symptoms in adult humans.
Toxoplasma
Gondii is capable of infecting virtually all warm-blooded animals, but
felids such as domestic
Cats are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite can
undergo sexual reproduction. Once infected, it can subtly change our
neural nets and
Eliminate Fear.
Parasitic Disease is an infectious disease caused or transmitted by a
parasite. How
Microbes in our Gut
influences
Behavior.
Aggressive Mimicry
is a form of
mimicry in
which predators, parasites or parasitoids share similar signals with a
harmless model, allowing them to avoid being correctly identified by their
prey or host.
Body Mind Connections -
Macroparasite
(wiki).
Cat Parasite
toxoplasma
hacks mice brains to
eliminate fear. Fear, or the
absence of fear, is not an accurate measurement of reality. You still have to explain your actions, because it might
be more than just a
parasite.
Toxoplasma parasites manipulate brain cells to survive. Researchers
have discovered that
Toxoplasma parasites lay dormant and undetected inside neurons or
brain cells and muscle cells by releasing proteins that switch off the
cells' ability to alert the immune system.
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis or
zombie-ant
fungus, is an insect-pathogenic fungus that infects ants of the
tribe Camponotini, with the full pathogenesis being characterized by
alteration of the behavioral patterns of
the infected ant. Infected hosts leave their canopy nests and foraging
trails for the forest floor, an area with a temperature and humidity
suitable for fungal growth; they then use their mandibles to attach
themselves to a major vein on the underside of a leaf, where the host
remains after its eventual death.
Republican
Zombies.
Brain-altering parasite turns ants into zombies at dawn and dusk. It
takes over the brains of ants, causing them to cling to the tops of blades
of grass against their will where they can be eaten by cattle and deer.
The common lancet liver fluke has an exceptional life cycle as it moves
through snails, ants and grass-grazing herbivores.
Revising the lifecycle of an important human parasite. Researchers
have tracked
Cryptosporidium in real time, creating a new paradigm for how the
widespread parasite reproduces in a host. Cryptosporidium is a minuscule
single-cell parasite that invades and reproduces within the cells of the
intestine of its hosts.
Mind Controlling parasitic worms are missing genes found in every
other animal. Parasitic hairworms manipulate the behavior of their hosts
in what's sometimes called
mind control, they can affect the behavior of their hosts and
make them do things that they wouldn't do
otherwise. A new study reveals another strange trait shared by
different hairworm species. They're missing about 30% of the genes that
researchers expected them to have. What's more, the missing genes are
responsible for the development of cilia, the hair-like structures present
in at least some of the cells of every other animal known.
Nematomorpha or hair worms are a phylum of parasitoid animals
superficially similar to nematode worms in morphology, hence the name.
Hairworms are found all over the world, and they look like skinny strands
of spaghetti, a couple inches long. They have no excretory, respiratory,
or circulatory systems, and they spend almost their entire lives inside
the bodies of other animals. Nematomorpha are sometimes called Gordiacea,
and commonly known as horsehair worms, hairsnakes.
Newly discovered viruses in parasitic nematodes could change our
understanding of how they cause disease. New research shows that
parasitic
nematodes, responsible for
infecting more than
a billion people globally, carry viruses that may solve the puzzle
of why some cause serious diseases. A study led by Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine used cutting-edge bioinformatic data mining techniques
to identify 91 RNA viruses in 28 species of parasitic nematodes,
representing 70% of those that infect people and animals. Often these are
symptomless or not serious, but some can lead to severe, life-changing
disease.
Nematode worms are the most abundant
animals on the planet, prevalent in all continents worldwide, with
several species infecting humans as well as agriculturally and
economically important animals and crops. And yet in several cases,
scientists do not know how some nematodes cause certain diseases.
New parasite discovered amid decline of California's unique Channel
Island fox. In the 1990s, the
San
Miguel Island fox nearly went extinct, dropping to just 15
individuals. A recovery program restored their numbers by 2010. However,
from 2014 to 2018, the population fell to 30% of its peak right after a
new acanthocephalan parasite, commonly known as thorny-headed worms, was
identified on the island. This also occurred while a multi-year draught
heated San Miguel Island, making it harder to identify the impact of the
new parasite on San Miguel foxes.
Leech is a person who clings
to another for personal gain, especially without giving anything in
return, and usually with the implication or effect of exhausting the
other's resources, like a parasite does. Leech is a follower who hangs
around a host without benefit to the host, in hope of gain or advantage. A
leech is
a carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically
having a sucker at each end. (No relationship can survive parasitic
behavior. Someone dies first, and then the other dies next. The one who
lived off the one who died first, will also die soon. This is an ill
conceived suicide by murdering a major source of energy that an organism
needs to live.)
Free Loader is a
person who takes advantage of others'
generosity without giving anything in return. A person who takes
things from others without paying for them or giving anything in return. A
bum, a leech, a spong, a bloodsucking parasite.
Corporate Criminals.
Human Parasite include various protozoa and worms that may infect
humans that cause parasitic diseases. Human parasites are divided into
endoparasites, which cause infection inside the body, and ectoparasites,
which cause infection superficially within the skin. The cysts and eggs of
endoparasites may be found in feces, which aids in the detection of the
parasite in the human host while also providing the means for the
parasitic species to exit the current host and enter other hosts. Although
there are a number of ways in which humans can contract parasitic
infections, observing basic hygiene and cleanliness tips can reduce its
probability. The most accurate diagnosis is by qPcr DNA antigen assay, not
generally available by primary care physicians in the USA: most labs offer
research only service.
Giardia
is a genus of anaerobic flagellated protozoan parasites of the phylum
metamonada that colonise and reproduce in the small intestines of several
vertebrates, causing giardiasis.
Brood Parasite are organisms that
rely on
others to raise their young. The strategy appears among birds,
insects and fish. The brood parasite
manipulates a host,
either of the same or of another species, to raise its young as if it were
its own, using brood mimicry, for example by having eggs that resemble the
host's, or egg
mimicry.
Brood parasitism relieves the parasitic parents from the investment of
rearing young or building nests for the young, enabling them to spend more
time on other activities such as foraging and producing further offspring.
Bird parasite species mitigate the risk of egg loss by distributing eggs
amongst a number of different hosts. As this behaviour damages the host,
it often results in an evolutionary arms race between parasite and host as
the pair of species coevolve. The strength of defenses and
counter-adaptation rely on the host/parasitic species' ability to evolve;
some host species have very strong rejection defenses resulting in the
parasitic species evolving to have very close mimicry. In other species,
hosts do not show rejection defenses and as a result, the parasitic
species will show no evolved trait.
Discovery illuminates how sleeping sickness parasite outsmarts immune
response. Parasite spread by tsetse flies persists in hosts by hiding
in tissues and evading antibodies. A new study sheds light on how the
blood-borne parasite that causes African sleeping sickness in humans and
related diseases in cattle and other animals establishes long-term
infections in hosts. Using a mouse model, the researchers showed that
Trypanosoma brucei essentially plays a game of hide-and-seek by setting up
shop in its hosts' tissues, allowing it to constantly change its
protective surface coat and evade antibodies.
Resident Parasites influence appearance, evolution of barn swallows.
Researchers think that local parasites are influencing why barn swallows
in Europe, the Middle East and Colorado are choosing their mates
differently. New research finds that these parasites could be playing an
important role in changing the traits displayed to attract mates early in
the process of the creation of new species. Every organism, including
humans, has co-evolved with a unique community of parasites, that by
definition live at the expense of their host. While they are not
beneficial to us like many other
microbes are, parasites have shaped our
own immune system, pheromones and even our mate selection, previous
research has shown.
Locust
are a collection of certain species of short-horned grasshoppers in the
family Acrididae that have a
swarming phase.
These insects are usually solitary, but under certain circumstances they
become more abundant and change their behaviour and habits, becoming
gregarious.
Under suitable conditions of
drought followed by rapid vegetation growth,
serotonin in their
brains triggers a dramatic set of changes: they start to breed abundantly,
becoming gregarious and nomadic (loosely described as migratory) when
their populations become dense enough. They form bands of wingless nymphs
which later become swarms of winged adults. Both the bands and the swarms
move around and rapidly strip fields and cause damage to crops. The adults
are powerful fliers; they can travel great distances, consuming most of
the green vegetation wherever the swarm settles. Locusts have formed
plagues since prehistory.
Tongue-Eating
Louse is parasite that detaches a fish's tongue and then attaches
itself to the fish's mouth, and then becomes its tongue. The parasite then
feeds on the fish's mucus. It also happens to be the only known case where
a parasite functionally replaces a host's organ.
Cymothoa exigua is a parasitic isopod of the family Cymothoidae. It
enters fish through the gills and the female attaches to the tongue, with
the male attaching to the gill arches beneath and behind the female.
Deworming is the giving of an anthelmintic drug to a human or animals
to rid them of helminths
parasites, such as
roundworm, flukes and tapeworm. Purge dewormers for use in livestock can
be formulated as a feed supplement that is eaten, a paste or gel that is
deposited at the back of the animal's mouth, a liquid drench given orally,
an injectable, or as a pour-on which can be applied to the animal's
topline. In dogs and cats, purge dewormers come in many forms including a
granular form to be added to food, pill form, chew tablets, and liquid
suspensions. Deworming is sometimes known as worming, drenching or
dehelmintization. (a wormer, dewormer, or drench).
Anthelmintic are a group of
antiparasitic drugs that expel parasitic
worms (helminths) and other internal
parasites
from the body by either stunning or killing them and without causing
significant damage to the host. They may also be called vermifuges (those
that stun) or vermicides (those that kill). Anthelmintics are used to
treat people who are infected by helminths, a condition called
helminthiasis. These drugs are also used to treat infected animals. Pills
containing anthelmintics are used in mass deworming campaigns of
school-aged children in many developing countries. The drugs of choice for
soil-transmitted helminths are mebendazole and albendazole; for
schistosomiasis and tapeworms it is praziquantel.
Ivermectin is an anti-parasite drug to
treat infections caused by roundworms, threadworms, and other parasites.
Under common brands: Soolantra, Sklice, Stromectol.
Preventing spread of parasitic DNA in our genomes. Scientists discover
a new enzyme that helps cells fight
genomic parasites. Researchers have identified a new enzyme called
PUCH, which plays a key role in preventing the spread of parasitic DNA in
our genomes. These findings may reveal new insights into how our bodies
detect and fight bacteria and viruses to prevent infections.
Discovery of cross-species signaling pathway unlocks mysteries around
parasite immunity and development. Ticks recognize a cytokine from
infected mammalian blood, triggering a defense against Lyme
disease-causing bacteria. Research has identified the first inter-species
signaling pathway between an arthropod parasite and host, where molecules
in the blood of a host animal triggers the immunity and development of a
parasite. The study showed that when ticks feed on the blood of mice
infected with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme
disease, a protein from the mouse immune system binds to receptors on tick
cell surfaces and signals organs to develop more rapidly, producing an
immune response long before the bacteria itself can begin to infect the
tick. The study, which was published on January 13, 2023, in the journal
Science, identifies a potential target for anti-tick vaccines or
therapeutics to prevent the spread of infections like Lyme disease. The
findings also provide important new insights into the evolution of
biomolecular interdependencies between species, and highlight, for the
first time, both the integration of immunity and animal development and
the adaptability of an ancient cell signaling system or pathway that all
plant and animal cells use for sensing and responding to their
environment. The finding suggests that other cell signaling pathways may
have been adapted for novel uses in other organisms and points to a new
area in immunology and molecular biology ripe for future exploration.
Assuming that JAK/STAT was triggered by the Borrelia in the infected mouse
blood, the researchers isolated the bacteria and injected it directly into
ticks to see what molecules were binding with the JAK/STAT receptor.
Surprisingly, the bacteria did not activate JAK/STAT. To find out what
did, the researchers removed the Borrelia bacteria from the blood of
infected mice and fed the "clean" blood to ticks. The JAK/STAT pathway
kicked into action. The researchers discovered that a protein in tick
digestive systems was serving as the JAK/STAT receptor, and that it had
evolved to bind with the cytokine protein interferon, which is produced by
the immune systems of mammals infected with a bacteria like Borrelia. The
researchers also found that the
JAK/STAT receptor and pathway are important for normal tick
development, even if the pathway is not activated by an infected blood
meal. When Pal and his colleagues knocked down the expressed gene that
produces the receptor for JAK/STAT, the ticks grew deformed legs,
mouthparts, and digestive systems, and were unable to feed and complete
the developmental cycle to grow further. These results suggest that in
ticks, the JAK/STAT signaling pathway, and the protein receptor have
evolved to integrate immunity with development. Bacteria will compete with
ticks for nutrients in the blood of an infected host, so when a tick gets
the signal that a blood meal is infected, growing rapidly is a way to use
up those nutrients before the bacteria gets them. Laboratory experiments
concur that ticks fed on Borrelia-infected mouse blood developed much
quicker than those that fed on uninfected mouse blood. Understanding that
this pathway integrates immunity and development has important
implications for potential strategies to prevent tick-borne disease
transmission. Because if you delete the pathway, ticks with malformed
mouthparts cannot feed or transmit disease. But what is also really
exciting to me is that we see this sort of early-warning system, where the
tick's immune system indirectly detects a pathogen using an immune
response from its host rather than the pathogen itself, accelerating its
own development.
Fossil feces infested with parasites from over 200 million years ago.
This parasitic plant convinces hosts to grow into its own flesh--it's
also an extreme example of genome shrinkage.
Balanophora shed one third of its genes as it evolved into a
streamlined parasitic plant -- an extreme degree of genome shrinkage even
among parasites. Along the way this subtropical plant developed the
ability to induce the host plant to grow into the parasite's own flesh --
forming chimeric organs that mix host and parasite tissues.
16 strange new parasitoid wasp species discovered in Vietnam.
Researchers have discovered 16 new species of strange-looking parasitoid
wasps from the
Loboscelidia group. The study also revealed for the first time the
unique parasitic behavior of a captive female from one species, who after
parasitizing her host egg, buried the egg in a hole in the soil.
How parasites shape complex food webs. A new study sheds light on how
parasites, often overlooked, can dramatically affect the balance between
predator and prey populations. Researchers developed a groundbreaking
mathematical framework that predicts when predators, prey, and parasites
can coexist, considering factors like random fluctuations and parasite
effects on both populations. This research provides a valuable tool for
conservation by helping predict how parasites influence ecosystem
resilience and informing strategies to protect vulnerable species.
More than a billion people have parasitic worms. The World Health
Organization estimates over a billion people are infected with parasitic
worms. The implications are often serious and lifelong. This includes over
600 million people infected with
pinworms, over with 500 million with
hookworms,
over 350 million with intestinal protozoa, over 250 million with
schistosomes, and 200 million with the malaria-causing parasite,
Plasmodium. These
infections can result in death, with
Trypanosoma cruzi resulting in 10 million deaths per year.
Nematode
infections are a particular problem in children, as they
hamper development.
Ectoparasites (e.g., fleas, lice, bedbugs, ticks, and mites) are also
problematic, particularly as they act as vectors for pathogens.
Brain Fog.
Researchers discover 'trojan horse' virus hiding in human parasite. An
international team has found a new RNA virus that they believe is hitching
a ride with a common human parasite. The virus is associated with
severe inflammation in humans
infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, leading the team to
hypothesize that it exacerbates
toxoplasmosis disease. The virus, called
Apocryptovirus odysseus, along with 18 others that are closely
related to it, was discovered through a computational screen of human
neuron data -- an effort aimed at elucidating the connection between RNA
viruses and
neuroinflammatory disease. The virus is associated with severe
inflammation in humans infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii,
leading the team to hypothesize that it exacerbates toxoplasmosis disease.
Trojan horse method gives malaria parasites a taste of their own medicine.
More than a quarter of Australians over the age of 50 take
cholesterol-lowering drugs to prevent heart disease and strokes, but our
bodies also need cholesterol to survive. Now, scientists say its role as a
basic building block of life holds the key to treating deadly diseases
caused by parasites, including malaria. The researchers have developed a
trojan horse method that tricks malaria parasites into ingesting a fatal
dose of drugs by exploiting the parasite's need for cholesterol to
survive. By attaching cholesterol to drugs, the scientists can "smuggle"
the drugs into the parasite where they can exert their killing effect.
Pretty much the same way that big corporations mass murder people
everyday.
Nonpathogenic intestinal protozoa are single-celled parasites commonly
found in the intestinal tract but never associated with illness. They do
not harm the body, even in people with weak immune systems.
Viruses Can Influence Thoughts
The body under
stress from a
virus does
effect regular thinking
patterns. More than just your mood changing, but how you
normally perceive
the world. How you
normally understand the world
changes when you're sick
with a
virus infection. When the body is fighting an
infection, it has to close down
certain low priority body functions so that the body can maximize it's
ability to focus on removing the virus. The brain has connections to
certain body functions, and those chemical reactions can easily be
misinterpreted by the brain. Maybe it's the bodies way of telling the
brain to rest by sending it chemical signals, but we misinterpret these
signals, we know we're sick, but we don't know exactly why, or what to do
exactly, or how it will effect us, mentally and physically? Waking up a
few days later when a
virus has
finally run its course and has been removed, you will
not be able to tell
exactly what differences there were in your thinking, unless you monitored
your thoughts before and after, and then be able to understand the
differences.
Rumination -
Media Minipulation
Study ties Kin Selection to Host-Manipulating Behavior in Parasites.
New research shows that family ties and traits such as manipulation,
sacrifice and selflessness are just as key to survival in
parasitic
organisms as they are in cognitive species like humans. In essence, when
it comes to successful transmission, some
parasites get by with a little
help from their kin.
Pharmaceutical Drugs can
induce suicidal thoughts, which means that those thoughts and words must
be already in your mind, why? And why does a drug make your memory recall
words and ideas that express suicide? Why would the human mind
need an area in it's memory for suicidal thoughts? Suicidal
thoughts have no purpose, so why are they there? It has to be
that you have experienced that feeling and had suicidal thoughts
before, and your brain is recalling that experience, why? Most
likely because you never deleted that information.
And how does
a human delete information? By re-categorizing that information
under a different heading, a heading that states that these are
old feelings based on old information that is now irrelevant and
inaccurate. So this information can
no longer be attached to the original cause. So this original
connection is removed. So the next time you go looking for this
information it will not be there, it will now have a forwarding
link to a new folder heading, old feelings based on old
information, here is the update. A feeling is not reality, you
control your thoughts, if you don't feel good, then find out
why? There are a lot of different reasons why you may feel
unhealthy, like an infection, or a body chemistry imbalance from
food, water, viruses, skin products or an exposure to toxins?
The human mind and body are repairable, if they were not, then
we would not be here. Once you narrow down all possible causes,
then you will have only a hand full of possibilities to choose
from, which makes diagnosis and self analyzing much easier.
Don't jump to any one conclusion. And don't forget the abilities
of the body and the mind to repair itself. And don't forget that
you have a responsibility to yourself to make sure that your
body and mind has all the right help it needs to maintain a
healthy existence, like healthy food, exercise, no exposure to
toxins and sleeping good, to name a few.
Pharmaceutical Drugs that
induce Suicidal Thoughts. Why would you make a drug that would cause
people to have suicidal thoughts? Because you are a ignorant criminal and
a murderer.
Ketamine Nose Spray can Stop Suicide Thoughts.
Effects of the common cold on mood, psychomotor performance, the
encoding of new information, speed of working memory and semantic
processing.
PANDAS
is a subset of children with rapid onset of
obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD or
tic disorders and these symptoms are caused by group A
beta-hemolytic streptococcal or GABHS infections. The proposed link between
infection and these disorders is that an initial autoimmune reaction to a
GABHS infection produces antibodies that interfere with basal ganglia
function, causing symptom exacerbations. It has been proposed that this
autoimmune response can result in a broad range of neuropsychiatric
symptoms.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 film) (wiki) -
Alien
is a 1979 science fiction horror film is about an aggressive and
deadly extraterrestrial, similar to a
parasite.
When people are
freezing to death
they get weird signals from the body that makes them believe that they are
extremely hot.
Sickness Behavior is a coordinated set of adaptive behavioral changes
that develop in ill individuals during the course of an infection. They
usually (but not necessarily) accompany fever and aid survival. Such
illness responses include lethargy, depression, anxiety, malaise, loss of
appetite, sleepiness, hyperalgesia, reduction in grooming and failure to
concentrate. Sickness behavior is a motivational state that reorganizes
the organism's priorities to cope with infectious pathogens. It has been
suggested as relevant to understanding depression, and some aspects of the
suffering that occurs in cancer.
Cancer clusters are not
copy cats, so why would we think that suicide clusters are copy cats?
Your mind can fool you, this is what everyone needs to learn.
The media fools you all the time,
and if you don't learn to control that influence, you will also be fooled
into doing things that will kill you or kill others.
Knowledge is the Best Medicine.
Body Mind Connections
-
Micro-Dose Remedies
The body can effect the mind and change normal thought processes, so
different information or thoughts are going to be introduced, and how you
interpret those thoughts is important. That is why you need a
system
check, or a reality check, a way to
verify the accuracy
of your thoughts. The mind is
plastic for a reason, so that you can dream of new ideas and come up
with new ways of problem solving. But the only down side of this ability
is when it is
misinterpreted
and you believe these thoughts to be a new reality, which they are not.
This is why you need a system check or a way to
reboot your system.
Out of all the
millions of decisions a person makes in their lifetime, there
could always be this one decision that will ultimately end a
person’s life. I see
suicide as a
momentary lapse of
reason where
severe
depression and
disappointment meets opportunity. Everyone should have the
right to choose the timing of his or her own
death, but not
when a person still has Potential to
make a difference, or
create something special,
or
achieve a goal of
great importance, a potential that most people don't even
know they have unless they have thoroughly examined all their
options and choices. So it's not just looking for a way out,
it's also looking for a way in. But even then,
total forgiveness
for suicide is a
must. For
one bad decision out of a million can hardly be
considered a commitment, because for some who have attempted suicide and
failed, they have never attempted again. So you have to wonder if
everyone failed a suicide attempt, how many of them would still be alive?
Either way
no one can be blamed, for every human makes
mistakes. Our only hope is to learn as much as we can from a
persons life and learn as much as we can from the people who
knew that person. Every life teaches us something. So it is up
to all of us to learn as much as we can from these moments and
pass on this extremely important knowledge to as many people as
possible. There is healing in sharing.
More education
lowers a persons suicide risk. When people lose meaning, they need
knowledge and information.
The worst part about suicide is that most of the people
committing suicide are our most brightest and most talented
people that we have, which leaves us with too many
assholes.
So please don't kill yourself, we really really need you to
stay. Why do most of the good ones have to leave so early
in their life, who knows what great things they could have accomplished.
Suicidal ideation or
suicidal
thoughts is thinking about suicide or having an unusual
preoccupation with suicide. The range of suicidal ideation varies greatly
from fleeting thoughts, to extensive thoughts, to detailed planning, role
playing (e.g., standing on a chair with a noose), and incomplete attempts,
which may be deliberately constructed to not complete or to be discovered,
or may be fully intended to result in death, but the individual survives
(e.g., in the case of a hanging in which the cord breaks).
Most people who
have suicidal thoughts do not go on to make suicide attempts, but suicidal
thoughts are considered a risk factor. During 2008–09, an estimated 8.3
million adults aged 18 and over in the United States, or 3.7% of the adult
U.S. population, reported having suicidal thoughts in the previous year.
An estimated 2.2 million in the U.S. reported having made suicide plans in
2014. Suicidal thoughts are also common among teenagers. Suicidal ideation
is generally associated with depression and other mood disorders; however,
it seems to have associations with many other mental disorders, life
events, and family events, all of which may increase the risk of suicidal
ideation. Currently, there are a number of treatment options for those
experiencing suicidal ideation.
Educating Adults -
Personal Development
Suicidology is the scientific study of suicidal behaviour
and suicide
prevention. There are many different fields and disciplines
involved with suicidology, the two primary ones being psychology and
sociology. Every year, about one million people die by suicide, which is a
mortality rate of sixteen per 100,000 or one death every forty seconds.
Suicide is largely preventable with the right actions, knowledge about
suicide, and a change in society's view of suicide to make it more
acceptable to talk about suicide.
Copycat Suicide is defined as an emulation of another
suicide that the person attempting suicide knows about either from local
knowledge or due to accounts or depictions of the original suicide on
television and in other media.
Weather Effects
Teen
suicide attempts in the U.S. declined after same-sex marriage became legal
and the biggest impact was among gay, lesbian and bisexual kids, a
study found.
Human Rights Work.
Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic compound produced by
more than 200 species of
mushrooms, collectively known as psilocybin
mushrooms. The most potent are members of the genus Psilocybe, such as P.
azurescens, P. semilanceata, and P. cyanescens, but psilocybin has also
been isolated from about a dozen other genera. As a prodrug, psilocybin is
quickly converted by the body to psilocin, which has mind-altering effects
similar, in some aspects, to those of LSD, mescaline, and DMT. In general,
the effects include euphoria, visual and mental hallucinations,
changes in perception,
a distorted sense of time, and spiritual experiences, and can include
possible adverse reactions such as nausea and panic attacks.
"The Feeling of Emptiness is an illusion"
Fatalistic is a Lie. The belief that
events are determined by an impersonal
fate and cannot be
changed by human beings is a Lie.
Fatalism is a
misconception that says
we are
powerless to do
anything other than what we actually do. And that man has no power to
influence the future, or indeed, his own actions. This belief is very
similar to predeterminism. An attitude of resignation in the face of some
future event or events which are thought to be inevitable. This belief is
very similar to defeatism, which is the
acceptance of the
inevitability of defeat.
There
are no problems, only solutions...
everything
is cause and effect.
Confidence -
Inspiration -
Depression -
Stress
-
Trauma
Self-Destructive Behavior is Self-inflicted harm or abuse
toward oneself, treated as a collection of actions, and therefore as a
pattern of
Behavior.
Counseling
Family, friends and co-workers need more
awareness so they don't ignore the signs of suicide. It's not enough to say to someone
that you're not alone, or to say to someone that you will get
through this, you have to stay, you have to talk, you have to
care. Some people can't make it on their own, and with over 7
billion people on this planet, no one
should have to be alone or be without help. We have all these
ways to communicate, but hardly anyone is saying anything
valuable or meaningful.
We all need to learn to communicate better and listen.
Insomnia is also a risk factor.
Suicide rate per hour rose to 10.27 percent after midnight. It
peaked at 16.27 percent between 2 and 3 a.m., and then dropped
to 2.13 percent between 6 a.m. and midnight.
Sleeping Knowledge.
Suicide is mostly
another drastic side-effect of our
dysfunctional education
system. Where in the curriculum does a student learn how
to correctly analyze themselves, or learn how to correctly analyze the
world around them? Where in the curriculum does a student learn
how to handle the
injustices, the
inequalities, and the
abuses of an
ignorant society? Where in the curriculum does
a student learn how to handle the multitude of problems that the
world is currently faced with? No where, so there's your
problem. But what about the other kids who have made through the
same dysfunctional education system? They seem normal, but are
they really? Maybe they're just oblivious, distracted, content,
or just plain ignorant and unaware? Are they part of the problem
or are they part of the solution? When we fail to understand the
importance of improving education, we will continue to fail in
almost every aspect of society.
Depression is a horrible feeling
and a total nightmare, but there is a cure, it's called
knowledge. The pain of sadness and depression is being produce
by you, so that means you can control it. But why couldn't you
control it before? That's because you haven't learned how, just
yet. Does this mean that other kids who are not depressed or sad
have learned to control sadness and depression? No, because they
might be hiding their depression, or they're just oblivious,
distracted, content or just plain ignorant and
unaware. Is it
possible that some kids actually learned how to control their
emotions? Yes it is possible, but they might not know how or why
they have more control and more awareness, so they might still
be vulnerable.
Thin Places.
I believe that one of the main reasons why some kids
self harm
themselves is because they haven't learned how to separate
physical pain from mental pain. And self harming is an attempt
to separate the two kinds of pain. So they only feel one pain
instead of the other, and they prefer the physical pain over the
mental pain because they can control the physical pain, but they
have difficulties controlling the mental pain. Both pains can be
controlled, it's that you must learn the right knowledge and the
right information at the right time. So again this is another
problem that can be solved by improving the curriculum in every
school in the world. When sadness and depression comes, you have
to have a check list to verify if the pain is life threating or
just a misinterpreted moment in time? So you have to know that
it's not a physical injury? It's not organ failure or a sign of
some serious physical ailment that needs immediate medical
attention? When you have determined that you are not in danger
then you can focus more on the thoughts that are causing your
sadness. Is it a sad memory? Are you worried about your future?
Are you not sure of yourself? Start with the facts? Are you
getting enough sleep? Are you eating the right foods? Are you
getting enough exercise? The more questions that you ask and the
more questions that you can answer the more control you will
have.
Problem
solving is one of the most valuable skills that you have,
but it's a skill that needs to be learned, it's a skill that
takes a lot of work and experience. To get it working
effectively and efficiently you have to practice, and once you
realize the power of knowledge, you will be able to solve any
problem that you put your mind to. The world is yours, it just
takes a lot of maintenance and a lot of patience. Your
sensitivity is a gift, it proves that you have a conscience, and
Conscience people is what this world needs more of.
"One of the greatest things about learning and accumulating knowledge is being able to
reflect on your life with a better understanding of yourself and the things that happened to you."
Suicide Numbers - Suicide Statistics
800,000 people die every year from
suicide worldwide. That's 4 people every second and almost 3000
people every day.
105 Americans lose their lives to
suicide on an average day. Over 40,000 Americans took their own lives in 2012. In 2018,
there were 48,344 recorded suicides, up from 42,773 in 2014, according to
the CDC's
National Center for Health Statistics or NCHS. On average,
adjusted for age, the annual U.S. suicide rate increased 24% between 1999
and 2014, from 10.5 to 13.0 suicides per 100,000 people, the highest rate recorded in 28 years.
In
2023, 12 million thought of suicide and
1.7 million people attempted suicide. For every one person who commits suicide, there are around 280 people
who decide not to.
Suicide Rates by Country (wiki)
A few years ago I heard that 18 veterans were committing suicide
each day, now in 2015, it's 22 a day (wiki) -
Drug pushing Psychiatrist Doctors are murdering soldier's using
dangerous pharmaceutical drugs.
The VA now stands for Veterans Assassinated.
Military Suicides just a Mistake -
Stop
Soldier Suicide
- A spike in military suicides is up 30% during the peak of the
coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
2018 Nationwide, at least 161 police officers took their own
lives and 160 the year before.
U.S.
Military Suicides drop as leaders push mental health programs, as
republican politicians
vote to reduce funding for mental health programs. 49 Republicans Voted
Against Food Security Help for Veterans.
Human Performance
Resource Center RSS source for military-specific evidence-based total
force fitness information.
The Hidden Enemy
Psychiatry the hidden enemy 1:46:09 - The Hidden
Enemy: Psychiatry [FULL DOCUMENTARY] (youtube)
We need more
Highly Skilled
Counselors, not
Drug Dealing Doctors.
2011 found an estimated 21,175 suicides involving
firearms compared with 11,208
homicides involving guns.
45,000 gun deaths in
2020. Most gun deaths are suicides.
Children as young as 5 take their own lives
every year. In the United States each year, about 30 to 35 children under
the age of 12 take their own lives.
Of the millions of Americans who
are depressed only a small fraction of them take their lives, so
depression and suicide are not synonymous.
45,000
Americans killed themselves 2016.
Not all suicides are
impulsive, some people give hints, while other people don't say anything.
More Youth Dying by Suicide and Homicide, CDC reports. In 2017,
suicide was the second leading cause of death for persons aged 10–14,
15–19, and 20–24, and
homicide ranked
third for persons aged 15–19 and 20–24 and fifth for persons aged 10–14.
Women with a history of suicide attempts exhibit different
levels of a specific protein in their bloodstream than those with no
history of suicide attempts.
Brain-derived neurotropic factor is a protein found in the brain and
periphery that is critical to the creation and functioning of
neurons and the ability of
synapses to strengthen or weaken over time. They found that women with a
history of suicide attempts displayed lower circulating levels of BDNF
than women with no history of suicide attempts. Women are twice likely to
initiate suicide but men are four times more likely to succeed.
Farmers are Committing
Suicide in Record Numbers
Weather Effects
You are not alone, I know you heard that before,
but you're not alone. You never where alone, and you can never be
alone, it's impossible.
You can be by yourself, yes of course,
but you're not alone. We are all here, sharing the same world as
you, over 7 billion of us. And over
100 billion of us have lived
and died, so it's hard for me to even believe that there is such
a place as
alone.
You are born into this world,
and the world that you were born onto is yours to change, as millions have
done before you.
There are millions of people in the world who are living in their
own little private hell. So you're not the only one who's
suffering. There's millions of people suffering every second of
every day. And the only real way out of this mess is to educate
our way out of it. It was only a 100 years ago that our only way
to distribute knowledge and information was on paper and in
books. And now that we have digitized our words, that means
everyone on the planet could have access to the worlds most
valuable knowledge and information, using a computer or a
smartphone. With
millions of people collaborating on the
internet, we can literally teach the world. And in a few years
we would have more intelligent people in the world then any
other time in human history. Going to the moon and back was just
a sample of what intelligent people working together can accomplish, and that was
over 40 years ago. Our possibilities are endless.
Suicidal
Tendencies - "Institutionalized" (youtube)
Birthday Effect
is a statistical phenomenon where an individual's likelihood of death
appears to increase on or close to their birthday.
"
Even a broken tree bears
fruit, not to say that you're broken, just saying that potential
is always present no matter how bad things look."
And please don't
blame your parents, teachers or anyone else because they too are
victims of our dysfunctional education system. It's up to you to
break this cycle of ignorance, so please don't give up, we need
you, really really bad.
"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now."
"Don't think that these thoughts will eventually go away on their own,
because sometimes they don't."
"Running away from a problem does not always make a problem
go away. Some problems you just have to face and find ways to correct
them, don't be afraid to ask for help"
"For every End there is a Beginning"
Most people don't know how
important their lives are. The impacts that people have on life are
never always visible or understood. Sometimes the littlest things that a
person does could have many influences on other peoples lives. Don't ever
think that your life doesn't matter, it matters no matter what. Everyone
in life is shaping the world in their own way. And if everyone tried to
make their legacy or their gift to life the best it can be, we would have
a great world before you knew it.
Depression may be caused by your inability to construct a future (Rollo May).
"It's hard to imagine a
future with the same eyes as yesterday."
Something that is extremely risky and dangerous is sometimes called suicidal. So
why is it when a person who dies from an action that is
extremely risky and dangerous, is sometimes called a
Hero?
Just because a person believes that they had no intentions in
dying, still cannot say that a particular action was not going
to kill them or that they were honestly aware of all their
choices and options. And a person could never say that their
death was more important then their life, for the causes and
effects from an entire lifetime can never be easily calculated.
So why is there this stigma with suicide? Especially when its definition and
meaning cannot even be clearly defined or understood. A person
who commits suicide can never honestly say that they knew that
they were going to live or die, after all, no one truly knows
what
death means to a
soul. In a way Life itself is suicide. We
all live knowing that we are eventually going to die, yet we
keep going. So I guess that means everyone is a hero and that no
one is actually suicidal. So what's left for the Brave. Lets
call them
Super Heroes, A person who acts when others will not.
A person who makes sacrifices when others will not. A person who
makes a difference when others can not.
"Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to
preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself
out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?"
In every
war battle a wounded soldier is a concern, thus it needs
attention that takes away resources from the main objective. If
you don’t factor in the wounded then it’s suicide, whether they
are physically wounded, mentally wounded or both. We should
learn to separate War from Hero, they are two different things.
In war there's only War Deaths, War Victims and War Wounded,
with the survivors and loved ones being left to pick up the pieces. And the
people who waged the war in the first place stand back with
their profits and wait to exploit innocent citizens again. Did
you ever hear people say "Hey we should all get together and
kill each other till one side gives up".
"The only sane people in the world are the ones who are seeking help or looking for
answers."
"My life was far from perfect, but it was perfect enough for me."
Too much, too soon, too fast, with too little time, too
little knowledge and too little love and understanding.
"Never do something permanently foolish just because you are temporarily upset."
I don't want to burn out or fade away, burning out can be just as bad as fading away,
because it all depends on what you're doing, and how much you're
not doing. It also depends on your definition of
burn out, and, understanding the things that are causing you
to
burn out. Trying to sum up all the decisions that a person
has to make in their lifetime into a few words or an easy catch
phrase,
is
just impossible. So,
My my, hey
hey, I guess we were always meant to stay, I don't want to
burn out or
fade away, I'll listen to you if you hear what I say.
Thanks Neil.....it will never end, how could it?
How does
a country like
South Korea have some of the highest student test scores in the world
and at the same time have one of the
highest rate of suicides by young people in the world? There is
something definitely wrong with the education system in south Korea. If a
country is going to force their young people to spend the majority of
their young life learning and studying, then you should definitely teach
them things that are worth learning. The first thing to learn is to have
balance in your life.
Life is not a competition. Humans work together and humans cooperate
with each other. There is no need to waste time, energy, money and
resources on deficient teaching methods that do more harm then good. High
scores do not equal high intelligence.
Committing Suicide to Avoid Capture, Torture or Dishonor
Suicide Pill is a
pill, capsule, ampoule, or tablet containing a
fatally poisonous substance that one ingests deliberately in order to
quickly achieve death through suicide. Military and espionage
organizations have provided their agents in
danger
of being captured by the enemy with suicide pills and devices which
can be used in order
to avoid an imminent and far
more unpleasant death such as through torture, or to ensure that
they cannot be
interrogated and forced to disclose secret information. As
a result, lethal pills have important psychological value to persons
carrying out missions with a high risk of capture and interrogation. The
term "
poison pill" is also used colloquially for a policy or legal action
set up by an institution that has fatal or highly unpleasant consequences
for that institution if a certain event occurs. Examples are the poison
pill shareholders rights amendments inserted in corporate charters as a
takeover defence, and wrecking amendments added to legislative bills.
Cyanide Poisoning (wiki) -
Military Suicide Capsules and Medical Ethics -
Junk Food.
Seppuku or
Harakiri is a form of
Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. It was originally reserved for
samurai in their code of honor but was also practised by other Japanese
people later on to restore honour for themselves or for their families. As
a samurai practice, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with
honor rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely be
tortured), as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed
serious offenses, or performed because they had brought shame to
themselves. The ceremonial disembowelment, which is usually part of a more
elaborate ritual and performed in front of spectators, consists of
plunging a short blade, traditionally a tantō, into the belly and drawing
the blade from left to right, slicing the belly open. If the cut is deep
enough, it can sever the descending aorta, causing a rapid death by blood
loss.
Suicide Attack is any violent attack in which the attacker accepts
their own death as a direct result of the method used to harm, damage, or
destroy the target.
Kamikaze were
aviators who flew suicide attacks for the Empire of Japan against Allied
naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War
II, intending to destroy warships more effectively than with conventional
air attacks. About 3,800 kamikaze pilots died during the war, and more
than 7,000 naval personnel were killed by kamikaze attacks.
Forced Suicide is a method of
execution where the victim
is
coerced into committing suicide to
avoid facing an alternative option they perceive as much worse, such as
suffering torture or having friends or family members imprisoned,
tortured, or killed. Another common form historically has been
deliberately providing a condemned individual with a weapon and a brief
period in which to commit honorable suicide if he or she chooses before
being
executed. The most well-known forced suicide is that of the
philosopher
Socrates,
who was forced to drink
hemlock because corrupted leaders put him on trial
for allegedly corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates was teaching
students
methods of inquiry and how to ask questions. Socrates was a
moral philosopher and most of what he said was
misconstrued and never
understood accurately because Socrates made no writings, and is mostly
known through the accounts of classical writers writing after his
lifetime, particularly his students
Plato
and
Xenophon.
History of Suicide (wiki).
Assisted Suicide - Euthanasia - Death with Dignity
Assisted Suicide is suicide undertaken with the aid of another person.
The term usually refers to physician-assisted suicide or PAS, which is
suicide that is assisted by a physician or other healthcare provider. Once
it is determined that the person's situation qualifies under the
physician-assisted suicide laws for that place, the physician's assistance
is usually limited to writing a prescription for a
lethal dose of drugs.
Death Penalty
Euthanasia is the practice of
intentionally ending a life
in
order to relieve pain
and suffering. Euthanasia is currently legal in the states of Washington
DC, California, Colorado, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington. Around the
world, there are different organizations that campaign to change
legislation about the issue of physician-assisted death, or PAD. Examples
of such organizations are the Hemlock Society of the United States and the
Dignity in Dying campaign in the United Kingdom. These groups believe that
doctors should be given the right to end a patient’s life only if the
patient is conscious enough to decide for themselves, is knowledgeable
about the possibility of alternative care, and has willingly asked to end
their life or requested access to the means to do so. This argument is
disputed in other parts of the world. For example, in the state of
Louisiana, giving advice or supplying the means to end a person’s life is
considered a criminal act and can be charged as a felony. In state courts,
this crime is comparable to manslaughter. The same laws apply in the
states of Mississippi and Nebraska.
Mercy Killing
is the killing of a patient suffering from an incurable and
painful disease, typically by the administration of large doses of
painkilling drugs.
What's the difference between
assisted suicide and
death
with dignity?
End of Life Care -
How I wish to Die -
Medical Intervention
- Self-Ownership
Death Wish
is the conscious or unconscious desire for the death of another
or of oneself.
Dysthanasia
means "bad death. Dysthanasia occurs when a person who is dying
has their biological life extended through technological means without
regard to the person's quality of life. Dysthanasia is a term generally
used when a person is seen to be kept alive artificially in a condition
where, otherwise, they cannot survive; sometimes for some sort of ulterior
motive
Life
Support refers to the treatments and techniques performed in an
emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital
organs.
Do Not Resuscitate is also known as
No Code
or
DNR
or Allow Natural
Death, which is a legal order written either in the hospital or on a legal form
to
withhold
cardiopulmonary resuscitation or CPR or advanced cardiac life
support or ACLS, in respect of the wishes of a patient in case their heart
were to stop or they were to stop breathing. No code is a reference to
the use of "code" as jargon for "calling in a Code Blue" to alert a
hospital's resuscitation team.
DNR request
is usually made by the
patient or health care power of attorney and allows the medical teams
taking care of them to respect their wishes. In the health care community,
allow natural death or AND is a term that is quickly gaining favor as it
focuses on what is being done, not what is being avoided.
Some criticize the term "do not resuscitate" because of the implication of
important information being withheld, while research shows that only about
5% of patients who require CPR outside the hospital and only 15% of
patients who require CPR while in the hospital survive. Patients who are
elderly, are living in nursing homes, have multiple medical problems, or
who have advanced cancer are much less likely to survive. A DNR does not
affect any treatment other than that which would require intubation or
CPR. Patients who are DNR can continue to get chemotherapy, antibiotics,
dialysis, or any other appropriate treatments.
Kevorkian
(2013 Film) - Wiki
Right to Die
is a concept based on the belief that a human being is entitled
to end their own life or to undergo voluntary euthanasia. Possession of
this right is often understood to mean that a person with a terminal
illness should be allowed to end their own life or to use assisted suicide
or to decline life-prolonging treatment. The question of who, if anyone,
should be empowered to make this decision is often central to debate.
Self-Ownership.
Hemlock Society
was a national right-to-die organization founded in 1980 in
Santa Monica by author and activist Derek Humphry. Its primary missions
included providing information to dying persons and supporting legislation
permitting physician-assisted dying. In 2003 the national organization
renamed itself to End of Life Choices, and a year later merged with
another group into a newly formed national organization called Compassion
& Choices.
Death
Wise -
Final Exit Network
Suicide Manual
is a Japanese book written by Wataru Tsurumi. He wrote on the problem of
"hardness of living" in Japanese society.
Death Info Graphic
(image)
Euthanasia Device is a machine engineered to allow an individual to
die quickly with minimal pain. The most common devices are those designed
to help terminally ill people die by voluntary euthanasia or assisted
suicide without prolonged pain. They may be operated by a second party,
such as a physician, or by the person wishing to die. There is an ongoing
debate on the ethics of euthanasia and the use of euthanasia devices.
Sarco Pod or pegasos suicide pod is a
euthanasia device or machine consisting of a 3D-printed detachable capsule
mounted on a stand that contains a canister of liquid nitrogen to die by
suicide through inert gas asphyxiation. "Sarco" is short for "sarcophagus".
It is used in conjunction with an inert gas (nitrogen) which decreases
oxygen levels rapidly which prevents panic, sense of suffocation and
struggling before unconsciousness, known as the hypercapnic alarm response
caused by the presence of high carbon dioxide concentrations in the blood.
The Sarco was invented by euthanasia campaigner Philip Nitschke in 2017.
Nitschke said in 2021 that he sought and received legal advice about the
device's legality in Switzerland.
Inert Gas Asphyxiation is a form of asphyxiation which results from
breathing a physiologically inert gas in
the absence of oxygen, or a
low amount of oxygen, rather than
atmospheric air (which is composed largely of nitrogen and
oxygen).
Examples of physiologically inert gases, which have caused accidental or
deliberate death by this mechanism, are argon, helium,
nitrogen
and methane. The term "physiologically inert" is used to
indicate a gas which has no toxic or anesthetic properties and does not
act upon the heart or hemoglobin. Instead,
the gas acts as a simple diluent to
reduce oxygen concentration
in inspired gas and blood to dangerously low levels, thereby
eventually depriving all cells in the body of oxygen.
According to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, in
humans, "breathing an oxygen deficient atmosphere can have serious and
immediate effects, including unconsciousness after only one or two
breaths. The exposed person has no warning and cannot sense that the
oxygen level is too low." In the US, at least 80 people died from
accidental nitrogen asphyxiation between 1992 and 2002. Hazards with inert
gases and the risks of asphyxiation are well established. An occasional
cause of accidental death in humans, inert gas asphyxia with gases
including helium, nitrogen, methane and argon has been used as a suicide
method. Inert gas asphyxia has been advocated by proponents of euthanasia,
using a gas-retaining plastic hood device colloquially referred to as a
suicide bag.
Nitrogen asphyxiation has been approved in some places as a method of
capital punishment, but has not yet been used for this purpose.
In 2021 in Canada,
more than 10,000 people ended their lives using medically assisted
suicide, which is more than 3% of all deaths in Canada. A further
expansion, allowing medically assisted suicide for mental health
conditions, will go into effect in March; permitting medically assisted
suicide for “mature” minors is also being considered.
Everyone should have the
right to
choose the timing of his or her own
death, and choose
how they die. Like if you were stuck in a burning building, most people
would choose to jump to their death instead of burning to death, that is
called choice, and should not be considered suicide. If you had a choice
between a long and painful death or a short and painless death, everyone
would choose a short and painless death.
If assisted suicide is thought to be a "sin against God" then
that means you're saying that life is a sin against God, because
death is part of life.
Everyone will agree, we don't want people
to suffer, but we also don't want people to give up to soon
either. And we also don't want to encourage other people to assist
other people, who may be giving up on life to soon. But let us not judge
people for what they do out of desperation.
We must learn as much as we can from each other. But it's
difficult to learn from one another when there's so many
beliefs. If someone is facing death, or facing a long painful
death, then they should have the right to face death on their
own terms.
You also need to understand that less then 1%
of the population would even use assisted suicide even when it's
available,
so this more about the comfort of knowing that the option to die
with dignity is there if someone ever needed it. It is also comforting to
society because they know that people are not being forced to suffer, even
though millions of people are being forced to suffer in other ways, which
is kind of ironic and disturbing when you think about it. People are more
worried about the one percent of a population's right
to die with dignity then they are about the millions of people
who are suffering everyday, as well as the 10's of thousands of
people dying everyday from
unavoidable deaths. There are many things in life that assist
us in dying sooner, like unhealthy food, polluted water,
disease, drugs, stress, war and the
Death Penalty, all
of which help us die sooner, all related to people. Some people help us
live, while other people cause us to die. So instead of using labels,
let's us explain the reasons why something is good or bad, right or wrong.
How
to Die in Oregon (2011) 1:47
When to let someone Die.
Terri Schiavo
Documentary: The Case's Enduring Legacy | Retro Report | The New York
Times (youtube)
How my dad's dementia changed my idea of death (and life) (video and
text)
Forcing someone to live a kind of life that you
want them to live is extremely selfish and
fascist.
Especially when your reasoning is not based on facts. People have a right
to live their own lives, that is why we have laws to protect
human rights. You have a right
to express your
opinion, but when laws are in place that protect human rights, your
personal beliefs without
evidence or valid reasoning cannot be used to violate peoples rights and
freedoms. This is not saying that you're wrong or that your opinion and
voice doesn't matter, because it does matter. It's just not right to use
lame excuses to violate humans rights. Every law is debatable, but if you
just bring beliefs to the table, without any evidence or valid reasoning,
or without even having a premonition
or a theory, then the law
stands. But this is not saying to give up, or does it say to stop
questioning societies laws, because that would be a real failure. We
always need people to ask
"Are You Sure? Are you sure you know
what you're doing?". And we should have
the answers, even if we are not 100 percent sure, people need an
explanation and some kind reassurance. And we also need avoid all types of
censorship. So please
keep learning, as everyone should. And make the most of your time, balance
it, manage it, live
it, and don't waste it.
Sallekhana is the Jain practice of facing death voluntarily
at the end of one's life, properly.
Live and
Let Die (youtube)
The Netherlands became the first country to make it
legal for doctors to help people die in 2002 with now both euthanasia,
where doctors actively kill patients and assisted suicide, where
physicians prescribe patients a lethal dose of drugs, are allowed.
However, patients must be "
suffering unbearably"
with
no hope of relief to go through with
the process, even though their
condition does not
need to be fatal. The review shows that before it was legalized in
1990, only 1.7 percent of deaths were from euthanasia or assisted
suicide, but that rose drastically to 4.5 percent in 2015. A large
majority of the deaths had serious illnesses at 92 percent but the rest
had a myriad of different health problems ranging from old age,
early-stage dementia, or psychiatric problems. More than a third of
those who died were over 80.
I'm interested in learning about your beliefs, but more
importantly, I need your knowledge, I need your information, I need your
understanding. What will happen if I go? What will happen if I stay? If
you stay, then you will find the answers to both of those questions.
Remember, you're leaving some day no matter what, so what's the rush?
Religious views on Suicide (wiki)
Comas (brain injuries)
"You can't use freedom to deny other people
their freedom. We need to learn from our choices. One size does
not fit all. There are situations that have their own
unique
needs, that means that people have their own unique needs."
We should stop using shame or guilt as a teaching method,
because you don't need to feel shame or guilt in order to learn
if something is wrong or bad. Shame or guilt, or the lack of
shame or guilt, explains very little. We should take the time
and explain why something is
wrong or bad, and not be so
dependent on our feelings or emotions to teach us right and
wrong.
"You are not a creep, and you are not a weirdo. So
what ever you want, what ever makes you happy, you are freaking special,
you are unique, you are a hero, so what are you doing here? You belong
here."
"Don't let your grip on life kill you. To
hold on to life to tightly will constrict life from living. You
can't hold onto something that someday has an end. You are
better off holding onto something that has a beginning, and life
begins now."
My
Favorite Things - Julie Andrews (youtube) - I simply remember my
favorite things, and then I don't feel so bad.
Sia - Never Give Up
(from the Lion Soundtrack) (youtube) - I've battled demons that
won't let me sleep, Called to the sea but she abandoned me, But
I
won't never give up, no, never give up, no, no, No, I won't never give
up, no, never give up, no, no, And I won't let you get me down, I'll
keep gettin' up when I hit the ground, Oh, never give up, no, never give
up no, no, oh, I won't let you get me down, I'll keep gettin' up when
I hit the ground, Oh, never give up, no, never give up no, no, oh,
I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh, I'll find my way, find
my way home, oh, oh, oh, I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh,
I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh, Oh yeah, I'm haunted by
the distant past, Called to the skies but she was she overcast, But I
won't never give up, no, never give up, no, no, No, I won't never give
up, no, never give up, no, no, And I won't let you get me down,
I'll
keep gettin' up when I hit the ground, Oh, never give up, no, never give
up no, no, oh, I won't let you get me down, I'll keep gettin' up when
I hit the ground, Oh, never give up, no, never give up no, no, oh,
I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh, I'll find my way, find
my way home, oh, oh, oh, I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh,
I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh, Never give up, never
give up, Never give up, never give up, No, no, oh, And I won't let
you get me down, I'll keep gettin' up when I hit the ground, Oh, never
give up, no, never give up no, no, oh, I won't let you get me down,
I'll keep gettin' up when I hit the ground, Oh, never give up, no, never
give up no, no, oh, I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh,
I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh,I'll find my way, find
my way home, oh, oh, oh, I'll find my way, find my way home, oh, oh, oh.
Everybody
Hurts - R.E.M. (youtube) - When your day is long, And the night,
The night is yours alone, When you're sure you've had enough, Of this
life,
Well hang on, Don't let yourself go, 'Cause everybody cries,
And everybody hurts sometimes, Sometimes everything is wrong, Now it's
time to sing along, When your day is night alone (
hold on), (Hold on)
if you feel like letting go (hold on), If you think you've had too much,Of this life,Well, hang on, 'Cause everybody hurts, Take comfort in
your friends, Everybody hurts, Don't throw your hand, Oh, no,
Don't throw your hand, If you feel like you're alone, No, no, no,
you're not alone, If you're on your own, In this life, The days and
nights are long, When you think you've had too much, Of this life,
To hang on, Well, everybody hurts sometimes, Everybody cries, And
everybody hurts sometimes, And everybody hurts sometimes, So,
hold on,
hold on, Hold on, hold on, Hold on, hold on, Hold on, hold on,
Everybody hurts, You are not alone.
Lullaby -
Shawn Mullins (youtube) - She grew up with the children of the stars,
In the Hollywood hills and the boulevard, Her parents threw big parties,
everyone was there, They hung out with folks like, Dennis Hopper and Bob
Seeger and Sonny and Cher, She feels safe now, in this bar on Fairfax, And
from the stage I can tell that, She can't let go and she can't relax, And
just before she hangs her head to cry, I sing to her a lullaby, I sing,
everything's gonna be all right, Rockabye, rockabye, Everything's gonna be
all right, Rockabye, rockabye, Rockabye. She still lives with her mom
outside the city, Down that street about a half a mile, And all her
friends tell her, She's so pretty, But she'd be a whole lot prettier, If
she smiled once in a while, 'Cause even her smile looks like a frown,
She's seen her share of devils in this angel town, But, everything's gonna
be all right, Rockabye, rockabye (dry your tired eyes), Everything's gonna
be all right, Rockabye, rockabye, Rockabye, Ooh, ooh, ahh, I told her I
ain't so sure about this place, It's hard to play a gig in this town and
keep a straight face, Seems like everybody's got a plan, It's kind of like
Nashville with a tan, But Everything's gonna be all right, Rockabye,
rockabye, Everything's gonna be all right, Rockabye, rockabye,
Everything's gonna be all right (I'll be your every), Rockabye, rockabye
(dry your tired eyes), Everything's gonna be all right, Rockabye, rockabye,
Everything's gonna be all right (I'll be your every), Rockabye, rockabye
(dry your tired eyes), Everything's gonna be all right, Rockabye, rockabye,
rockabye, bye, bye (ahh), Bye, bye.
"I tried to kill myself today, never doing that shit again, I almost killed myself."