JK> "their own suicidal tendencies" is a blanket statement that just is
 JK> hogwash.  It connotates a mental health stigma on your part that these
 JK> people simply do not deserve.
Let me see - we're engineered to survive. You're telling me people who are 
able to over-ride this natural instinct aren't sick? Don't have baggage? 
Their coping mechanisms are just fine, thank you? Uh-huh.
People who are suicidal have _problems_. Period. Trying to avoid their 
problems with cutesy politically-correct and mind-numbing adjectives doesn't 
help them - or their problems. They're not functioning properly in society. 
THey do not perform to the social norm. They are, in short, mentally ill. 
Sick. In need of help.
 JK> What they need, and what they don't get, is help from other addicts who
 JK> have gone on and taken courses in addiction AFTER they got their own
 JK> habits under control.  Folks who can walk in and get their attention and
People either deal with their addictions through self-control and willpower 
or they don't. They may be assisted through outside intervention. Of course, 
they have to be considered ill enough to recieve that aid first....
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