wants to die there is nothing and I mean nothing that is going to prevent that person from doing it. Believe me I saw my beautiful cousin who had all the advantages of help around her. She was in and out of psych hospitals. They even took her to Lourdes in Frances. To the best doctors in Switzerland. She had shock treatments. I mean everything for her yet one morning she got upset because her maid didn't wake her up for lunch. Her mother told the maid to let her sleep because she didn't sleep well during the night. So she asked the maid why she didn't wake up and she told her. Then the maid went to her room to get her a sweater and when she came back there she was standing on top of the balcony and jumped off. She died a week later. She wouldn't hurt anyone else. I loved her dearly. I mean I was around 19 when I last saw my cousin. She was crying and crying and she couldn't even tell you why. People who are in that state usually can't be reasoned with. They are so very sad.

I'm sure that whole episode must have been very difficult for your family. I've had one good friend attempt suicide -- he jumped off a building -- but thankfully he survived. His arms were smashed, mangled, and even today (more than 15 years later) you can still see the scars from the metal bars they had to put in his arms to give them strength. Suicide is a terrible thing. Anything we can do to help people facing this personal crisis is a good thing.

very difficult to get over even after all these years. But I think she is better off because she isn't suffering anymore. Terrible when you can't solve their problems.

The mind fuck that we are putting our troops through is growing both in numbers of cases and depth of affliction.

do you think the military is more interested in making the troops mentally tougher - so that they can continue the 'mind fuck',

or do you think that the military is more concerned with the mental health of the troops - and might discontinue the 'mind fuck'.

Reference the article - I wonder which is the symptom which is the problem?

Mental health is only relevant to the extent that the mission can be accomplished. Mind fuck is a by-product of war, and is a calculated feature of all battle plans.

The plutocracy dictates that there will be wars. The government starts and then sustains wars, (no victory). The victims that are still alive are released to their own devices to affect themselves, and the rest of society.

Although commercials about mental health and suicide are regularly aired on AFN/AFRTS. But the policies that cause the human destruction during combat operations (friendly or not) haven't changed, and more importantly, aren't going to.

American society seems pretty well inured to these facts. And to the costs of an imperial fascist nation.