How much is your life worth?
Like everything else under capitalism the mental health system is broken.
I'm having to consul my cousin right now because her partner is in intensive care in a coma after trying to commit suicide and he probably won't make it.
I know what you're thinking, well who could have known he was going to kill himself, or if he wanted to do it he would have found a way.
M wanted help- he didn't want to do this, he didn't want to die, he begged and pleaded to be admitted to the Henry Bennett centre and they turned him away time and time again.
I spoke to my mum, a nurse, she said oh yeah this happens all the time, again and again, people ask for help and don't get it and die as a result.
It was less than a week since he last asked to be admitted to Henry Bennett centre and was denied, and then attempted suicide, the reality is the system doesn't give a fuck, we all have a dollar value on our heads people.
Someone is literally sitting in an office deciding that it is reasonable to deny x amount of people care even if the risk is that one of them dies.
How much is M's life worth?
That's what I want to know.
Maybe they're even happy because the cost of his ICU stay while he dies is less than the cost of treating his medical illness over his life.
I'm having to consul my cousin right now because her partner is in intensive care in a coma after trying to commit suicide and he probably won't make it.
I know what you're thinking, well who could have known he was going to kill himself, or if he wanted to do it he would have found a way.
M wanted help- he didn't want to do this, he didn't want to die, he begged and pleaded to be admitted to the Henry Bennett centre and they turned him away time and time again.
I spoke to my mum, a nurse, she said oh yeah this happens all the time, again and again, people ask for help and don't get it and die as a result.
It was less than a week since he last asked to be admitted to Henry Bennett centre and was denied, and then attempted suicide, the reality is the system doesn't give a fuck, we all have a dollar value on our heads people.
Someone is literally sitting in an office deciding that it is reasonable to deny x amount of people care even if the risk is that one of them dies.
How much is M's life worth?
That's what I want to know.
Maybe they're even happy because the cost of his ICU stay while he dies is less than the cost of treating his medical illness over his life.
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