This is another example of emotion-driven hyperbole. This is an encyclopedia project. People who are interested in spending their time contributing to an anti-suicide cause may do so, but this is not it. The Wikipedia coverage of this topic, like any other, should be value-free, and should offer an informative, non-judgmental view. It is not the job of encyclopedia editors to direct customers/clients to any particular "suicide hotline," and it is not the job of encyclopedia editors to either chastise or egg on suicidal readers.
To assert in the lead of the article that something is "wrong" with suicide (in the normative sense) is as clear a violation of the Neutral Point of View as I can imagine. Some people assert the existence of a right-to-die, while others deny this. Both of those views are already discussed in various articles, including:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_die http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_intervention http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-harm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_views_of_suicide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_views_of_suicide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_views_of_suicide http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_suicide
That's why the infobox is there, after all.
DickClarkMises
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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:50:27 -0400 From: Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] "Suicide methods" atricle: Epilogue To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: C24E91C3.36D4%michaeldavid86@comcast.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
on 4/20/07 3:26 PM, Matthew Brown at morven@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think that's appropriate in an encyclopedia in any case.
Please stop with what is or isn't "appropriate for an encyclopedia". The small act of placing a phone number on a page could actually prevent a death.
Marc