New veteran-led suicide prevention program takes new approach



Lucy Bustamante of NBC News affiliate station WCAU in Philadelphia reports on how the idea of a veterans response team started and eventually developed into a nationwide training program at VA hospitals.

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5 comments

  1. Sorry, not everyone who joins the military is an Eagle Scout, lots of losers join, finish their service,come home and go back to being a loser.

  2. To bad these stats are fixed and altered in an attempt for NGOs to achieve extra donations and money that they then keep for themselves

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  4. they have a suicidal deathwish right from the get go. they join the military in hopes of achieving that, if that fails, they choose an alternate means

  5. why are we spending time and resources keeping people who don't want to be here alive?

    I've killed myself multiple times. each time is a failure… each time after calling 988, 911, several other crisis connections… the don't care. their training is 'that sounds frusterating.' and then they call the cops on you.

    but yes… keep throwing money at a fire and wonder why it swells instead ov dying out.