Posted by gabbix2 on January 18, 2004, at 14:06:30
In reply to Re: news reporting on suicide » gabbix2, posted by DaisyM on January 18, 2004, at 1:02:10
Thanks Daisy, I know someone who went through the anguish of losing someone this way and who was hurt again at the thought of that pain being sacrificed to the media.
It is complicated, as someone who's been suicidal my views on whether it would help are different (and change within my own mind) but that's not the point.
At the very it would simplify things if we could trust that the media would be sensitive and always had our best interest at heart. Unfortunately we can't even count on that.
I needed to offer an alternate viewpoint, thanks for understanding that.
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