Jeffrey Epstein has killed himself.

[conuly]

I didn't read any news about this yet, I just saw a blurb at the diner. (Link.)

On the one hand, I'm not grieving. He seems to have been a thoroughly awful person.

On the other hand, he already attempted suicide not that long ago. If suicide watch can mess up this badly with somebody who is both a. rich and b. very much in the public eye right now, how much care are they taking with every random dude off the street?

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[nodrog]

Answer:  None.  The Good Old Days of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are as gone as Ma Bell.  The husband of a friend of mine has tried to kill himself twice, + and the best she can get for him is one (1) month’s “outpatient care,” whatever that means.

The CDC reports that annual suicides have increased 30% since the 1990s.  So it goes.

+ “Do - or do not.  There is no ‘try.’”  Of course I did not say this, but I thought it.