suicide

Jeremy Clarkson is in hot water again. This time over his comments that people who suicide are selfish. I have always maintained that people who kill themselves are selfish, but I haven’t expressed it in the same way Clarkson has:

“I have the deepest sympathy for anyone whose life is so mangled and messed up that they believe death’s icy embrace will be better,” Clarkson said in his column in the Sun newspaper.

“However, every year around 200 people decide that the best way to go is by hurling themselves in front of a speeding train.

“In some ways they are right. This method has a 90 per cent success rate and it’s extremely quick.

“However, it is a very selfish way to go because the disruption it causes is immense. And think what it’s like for the poor train driver who sees you lying on the line and can do absolutely nothing to avoid a collision.”

Later in the article the presenter referred to those who choose to jump in front of trains as “Johnny Suicide” and argued that following a death, trains should continue on their journeys as soon as possible.

“The train cannot be removed nor the line reopened until all of the victim’s body has been recovered. And sometimes the head can be half a mile away from the feet,” Clarkson adds.

“Change the driver, pick up the big bits of what’s left of the victim, get the train moving as quickly as possible and let foxy woxy and the birds nibble away at the smaller, gooey parts that are far away or hard to find.”

Clarkson really lays down a challenge for Paul Henry with those comments.

Bad news for Winston Peters and NZ First:

The number of elderly New Zealanders killing themselves has surged 11 per cent to a 10-year high, fuelled by mounting health and economic worries.

The spate of deaths has pushed the country’s overall suicide numbers to 558, the highest since 1997.

While youth suicide rates continue to decrease, the 65-plus age group is growing, with 54 deaths this year – around 10 per cent of all suicides.

But some nurses are concerned not all suicides are being recorded properly, and the number could be much higher.

Suicide Prevention Information New Zealand figures show an average of 49 deaths a year in the older age group since 2000, compared with an average of only 33 in Australia.

John Key was right!

I have been reading about the release of the latest Suicide Statistics by the Chief Coroner.

Unfortunately it appears that the statistics seem to still be a secret and the MSM are simply reporting the bits they like.

I would have thought that in the interests of discussion properly the details of what has been released that they should be released more widely.

I finally found a link on the SPINZ website to the overview released today. It was in .doc format so I took the liberty of downloading it and making it a pdf.

Until I can get the full report this will have to do. I don;t want to put any spin on it, just let people read for themselves.

Suicide Stats – Coronial Media Handout 26 Aug 2011

Pat Newman is a school principal. I have featured him on this blog before. He is also the Labour party candidate in Whangarei.

Check out his callous comments on Facebook as he decides to score political points on the issue of youth suicide.

Witness the caring Labour party.

Jim Anderton is whining that increased youth unemployment causes increased youth suicide:

Youth suicide rates will peak over the next two to four years because of “shockingly high youth unemployment rates”, a Christchurch MP says.

Progressive MP Jim Anderton said high suicide rates followed high unemployment “as sure as night follows day”.

“Teenagers in New Zealand face high levels of unemployment, crime and depression and that is materially worse on all these scores than the average in other developed countries.”

He said New Zealand had more than 500 suicides each year.

“In the nineties, four peak years of youth unemployment were followed by the highest youth suicide rates in the Western World.”

The country would soon see a repeat, he said.

Perhaps he could explain why it is that he voted for the removal of youth pay rates that has demonstrably led to the massive increase in youth unemployment.

When he is done doing that he could then explain the correlation between kids killing themselves and having a shithead for a father who beats their mother on a regular occurrence.

I wonder why there isn’t outrage at the Islamic and Koranic verses inscribed on the coverings of the preferred weapon of choice of the terrorist, the suicide bomber?

Reem Raiyshi, a Hamas suicide bomber/martyr murderer, posing with Qur'an before her mission. She blew herself up at the major border crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip, on Jan. 14, 2004, killing herself and four Israelis

As is usual at The Standard they have a post about the evilness/weakness/ineptness/stupidity/baby-eating/child-abusing of John Key.

Today however they reached a new low. Lprent is Lynn Prentice, the guy with a girls name, but that doesn’t excuse this comment in response to a rational comment about ACC and how the left are lying about the privatisation of ACC.

Now put that in context with their caring post about me. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about The Standard and about Lynn Prentice in particular and just how caring and sharing the left really is.

The fact that despite being called out by one of their regular commenters on this disgusting comment Lynn Prentice then went on to justify it shows just how disgusting he and his blog really are.