http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34991931
BBC News 3.12.15
Own thoughts:
I really can’t help feeling that a whole mental health perspective has
been lost here. One wonders if it will have implications later upon
the treatment of suicidal people, negative it terms of the right to
self-neglect or positive it terms of asserting the rights of the
patient. I also think that the reporters and professionals are
desperate to paint this person as somehow shallow, or apart from
society, as though they were bound to materialism and looks to a fault,
or perhaps to be respected, almost like a religious choice. I wonder
what the family feel? Maybe more will come out, or it’ll just be
dismissed as force of will vs. the hippocratic oath. Did she have any
counselling? Was she made to feel guilty after overdosing, to the point
that she felt she didn’t deserve care later and to the point that she
despised any doctors telling her what to do? I’m projecting a little
here. It overlaps in my head with doctors being baffled by actively
suicidal, yet lucid, patients. There’s something missing here.
Somewhere between statutory care and personal needs, something has been
lost.
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