Kurgom

It's looking like Shinzo Abe will be pronounced dead soon, the language being used by the NHK seems to be prepping the nation for grieving.

That's good and all but I don't think reality soon becoming going to your doctor and having a conversation about when the government will let you kill yourself is going to be a positive for mental health in this country. Usually therapy and doctors get the people whom struggle with these thoughts to keep their mind on other things. Kids see this and know it's morally correct to end your life if you are suffering from depression badly enough.

Because depression is not incurable and most of the times it is "incurable" it's due to a lack of effort towards change by the individual. I was guilty of this in the past, if you told 20 year old me "yeah but it's OK to just give up and die if you still feel bad a year from now" I would not be here. As mental health becomes an even more important part of young people's lives going forwards, this is not something you want them to be thinking of as an option or resolution. Society telling them yes, it's okay to kill themselves, how can you not see the effects this will have on the most vulnerable people?

I can't get over how stupid this is. You hospitalize someone for a suicide attempt, they are bipolar depressed. You say; we're going to treat you with these meds and therapy, but you'll need to work your ass off just to live a normal life like everyone else; or just give up and be even more depressed and in 5-6 months we'll let you kill yourself. What do you think a depressed person will do in such a situation? How is this being considered?

You can't overstate the effects of a society saying "if you (think) you're &^@#ed up enough, just end it" on mentally vulnerable people. Telling depressed people that suicide is in fact an option is never a good idea. This is a bad idea for so many reasons, how it got so far shows a huge disconnect between the people making policy around mental health in Canada and Canadians suffer or suffered from poor mental health.

Omicron is already ravaging Shanghai, it's out of control. This is going to be a really really rough year for China.

Internal propaganda. People willing to rape and murder for the glorious motherland in foreign wars.

Don't fall into the same trap Benning did and rebuild, properly. Hughes, Bo, Pettersson and Demko can be here for 10+ years each, keep them and get what you can for Miller. In 5+ years you will see the dividends from this in serious cup runs.

Blatant cheating and favoritism, is anyone surprised?

Recycling plastic is an actual scam, and should be done away with. It all ends up in a landfill in Asia. Homeless people should be paid by weight for picking up garbage and keeping places clean.

Don't blame HK. The people in charge are the same ones that ordered peoples pet's dogs and cats to be beat to death while they were under forced quarantine. That country is a mess.

So 0.006% of the population is in the hospital, the sky is falling. Most of them because of Delta as well.

Reality. Everyone I know has gotten Omicron, from my elderly grandparents to my nephews. You probably had it but didn't notice with how infectious it is.

There's about 4 different arguments going on in this thread, none of them are reasonable and make any sense, while COVID isn't putting anyone in the hospital right now. This thread is like a fever dream.