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Suicide Cleanup Comments
A sucide cleanup company must offer reasonable prices for their service. Otherwise, consumers lose out on an opportunity for professional cleaners' services when most needed. Nothing upsets a family more than a suicide. We can imagine the pain and suffering such an event must create. So why cause a family in need by charging more than a working family can afford?
Most of my death cleanup work involves white male victims. It doesn't matter if it's a crime scene cleanup or other type of death cleanup, white males often become subjects of professional cleaning following their death. Black males also suffer high numbers from homicides, more than white males, proportionately. Their suicide does not approach the higher numbers found among whites, though. The fact that white males account for about 73% of suicides in these United States. should not go unnoticed. I've written much on this occurrence and found the same formulas used by others, and seldom do these fit the need for a comprehensive suicide causation model.
In these times of housing foreclosures and massive unemployment, union busting, and other events hurting our United States' citizens, suicide grows. Economic dislocation, loss of friends and family, and other isolating conditions all add to suicide's numbers. Let's us hope that soon everyone will learn to live with lowered expectations of themselves to help lend comfort to their loss of place in a very competitive world with many forms of corruption.
Stigmatization following a Suicide
Likewise, stigmatizing family survivors of a suicide in their family helps no one and hurts others.
In our society we hold others responsible when someone commits suicide. This is wrong. There's no way to know if someone will actually commit suicide. We have indications, threats, and so forth, but we never really know. I've seen to many suicides that "came out of the blue" without the "slightest hint" that the victims were going to commit suicide. In fact, my first professional biohazard cleanup job involved a young, white, male teacher who had "everything to live for." As suicide cleanup goes, this one suicide cleanup became one of my more important lessons for cleaning techniques and social interaction following a totally shocking, unexpected suicide.
Suicide comes as a first thought following disappointing or threatening news for some victims. Then, suicide comes after many years of contemplation. Some suicides occur on a particular date at a particular time because it was part of a long-term suicide plan. So there's no reason to blame anyone.
I know from my own experiences with homicide and suicide in my lifetime that it's hard to prevent loss of control and gain understanding. We, as a species conscious of itself and its universe, find it so easy to project blame on the lack of parental care, other caregivers, or our government's failure to take charge of these terrible social problems. Our minds continue to search for answers until it becomes more agitated if not lost to hopelessness.
Many times I have completed my work and found family members feeling abandoned, ashamed, powerless, and vulnerable. They feel stigmatized by an act they had no control over and could not have controlled if they had the opportunity. In fact, failed attempts at suicide often become a form of practice for a more successful moment to carry out suicide. Suicide survivors report not receiving sympathy in a genuine sense. There are tokens of sadness found in store-bought sorrow cards, but little else. Honestly though, what else might one expect?
We should not expect ridicule to stigmatization for the rash suicidal acts of those around us. Survivors are known to hear the sounds of whispers around their coworkers. Friends honestly do not know what to say or do. There are no plans for this sort of event in our public education. So friends become uncomfortable and withdraw emotional support in hopes of avoiding unpleasant moments better left until later, much later.
From suicide cleanup work I learn that suicide has many many emotional wounds to inflict on many people. We can only hope that we will learn to cope and learn to grow emotionally strong following suicide by those close to us.
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