Yes. I mean, this is the real difficulty. One of the challenges, if someone is extremely depressed and a family member is concerned, is whether he should be hospitalized against his will. That becomes an issue in such cases.
The challenge is that not all suicides are preventable. The hundred suicides that were reviewed in New Brunswick, the cases Ms. Belik was talking about, were studied very carefully. That's where the recommendation of coordination of mental health and addictions services came from. Also, they noted that 30 out of the hundred suicides were not preventable, even if anything and everything could have been done. It's important to try to raise awareness among people in contact with the person, and to provide family-member peer support. If a person is depressed and feeling hopeless, and wanting to die, that person is not going to seek services.
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