Herald & Fairfax Watch: We are in denial over the why of suicide in New Zealand
The Herald are copying Stuff by running big current affairs campaigns. This week Stuff is looking at cannabis reform and the Herald are attempting to talk about suicide.
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Dave Macpherson – Being part of the Health Establishment means never having to say sorry
A leading suicide prevention campaigner published a social media post on the weekend asking why the Southern District Health Board had yet to apologise to her family over the poor care for her son, who was a victim of suicide 4 years ago.
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If only actual suicide could get as much immediate action as fictional suicide on Netflix
We are in denial about how our neoliberal welfare state and free market consumer culture has contributed to the zeitgeist of suicide and we don’t have the maturity to confront our delusion which is why it’s easier for us to slap some censorship on an internet series that talks about it.
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Imagine what we could do if the NZ corporate media focused on suicide the way they do the bloody holiday road toll
This is lazy journalism, it’s not news. Imagine what we could do in this country of the media focused on the suicide rate the way they do the bloody holiday road toll.
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MUST READ: Guest Blog: Mike King – why Government Services are failing us on suicide
I can tell you what the over 350 submissions to our People’s Review project is starting to tell us:
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Macpherson – An MP discovers the mental health system is broken
During last week, Tai Tokerau MP Kelvin Davis was reported in both mainstream and social media as having had a text and phone ‘encounter’ with a severely depressed man who had harmed himself and was contacting Davis to say “goodbye”.
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1700 Suicides in New Zealand per year? What has happened to Aotearoa?
The reason we can’t talk about suicide is because we can’t stand to talk about the dark treacle of self hate and loneliness at the core of consumer culture. We don’t dare confront the hollowness of our existence on these far flung crags of rock for fear of what we will reveal about ourselves.