This is fucked. So sorry many of you feel traumatized and hurt, or that you have been pushed towards ctb as a result of this event when you genuinely aren't ready and don't want to.
Don't they realize this hurts suicidal people worse by making them feel trapped-forcing them to act quickly, rather than deciding whether or not to live or die on their own terms rather than than what the whims of the state decides?
Truly shameful, especially when such horrific and barbaric methods are out there just sitting on the shelves of shops, methods that can cause serious damage to a person who survives the attempt. Not only that, but sometimes others who unknowingly come into contact with someone who has used a dangerous gas or chemical may get hurt by proxy because they have no idea that the person who ctb used such a method.
Don't forget train drivers who have to live with ptsd because of all the people they have to watch make the jump over the course of their careers. Where is the concern for them? Where is the compassion for people who suffer permanent brain injuries as a result of failed hanging? Oh right, the world doesn't care about the state of those people, only that they are still alive even though many of them are now suffering even more than they did prior to the attempt.
Someone needs to have a serious conversation about this and get it through these people's heads that there are many of us who have horrible illnesses and diseases, life circumstances that won't improve, many other UNFIXABLE problems that we have tried for years to solve and won't get better. I don't want to keep suffering from chronic fatigue for the rest of my life. They shouldn't have the ability to chain me to a body that is fundamentally broken. Wanting to escape from many more years of misery thanks to an incurable somatic illness is not irrational.
Putting this on people's NHS records as well is yet another blunder. Sure, they think they are helping. The intentions are good. I don't deny the people in charge of these sting operations have a firm conviction that they are doing the right thing and helping someone by doing these things.
However, now everyone who purchased this chemical, even though they may not have intended to ever use it, or were waiting until the point of no return like an illness becoming terminal, are going to have a permanent stain on their record saying that they're "mentally ill and suicidal". No one should be forcefully hospitalised and put on medications against their will simply for wanting a way out of this life. Yet, I have no doubt the attempts to section people are going to ramp up. Why do they think this helps anyone?
Backing people into a corner and making them feel like they have to attempt dangerous methods is not the way to help them.