The Prime Minister gave a thoughtful, compassionate and humane eulogy for Dave Batters, a former MP. I don't often praise Stephen Harper but he deserves praise here:
Harper mourns former MP's suicide
PM urges greater public understanding of anxiety, depression
Tonda MacCharles
OTTAWA BUREAU
OTTAWA – Reflecting on the life and tragic suicide of a young former Saskatchewan MP, Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged a greater public understanding of the severe anxiety and depression that touch so many Canadians.
At a funeral in Regina yesterday, Harper eulogized Dave Batters, 39, who committed suicide June 30, as a colleague whose energy and enthusiasm "were infectious. He lifted spirits and inspired others."
Batters's suicide shook the ranks of fellow Conservatives and others on Parliament Hill.
A few months before Batters announced that he would not run again last fall, the Prime Minister said, "I became aware that beneath this veneer of optimism, Dave struggled with severe anxiety and depression.
"While we cannot understand why a loved one would act with such sudden finality, we need to know that Dave is not alone. Each year, nearly 4,000 Canadians make this same choice."
Although science has made progress in understanding mental illness, "we still don't know enough about depression, and less about suicide," Harper said.
"But we know this much: Depression can strike the sturdiest of souls. It cares not how much you have achieved, nor how much you have to live for."
Severe anxiety and depression hit men and women "in their primary working years and, most sadly, in their adolescent children," according to a transcript of Harper's comments at the funeral.
Full story here:
http://www.thestar.com/article/661081
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7 comments:
Sorry, but I can't take Harper's hypocracy. It's not the speeches that mean anything, it's how one acts.
Suicide and deprecession - kids, internet and school yard bullying - what does Harper do? He bullies and demeans - what kind of example is that.
Sorry, Harper's a hypocrite right to the core.
"But we know this much: Depression can strike the sturdiest of souls. It cares not how much you have achieved, nor how much you have to live for."
The link isn't certain, but poverty is probably a major factor in Western cultures in inducing depression: http://www.apa.org/releases/lowses.html
Conservative fiscal policy given Canada's present composition of finance and oil companies and present underinvestment in safety nets, is poverty inducing. Harper is probably wrong here, though he did make mental illness funding a priority last year. His prison platform is mental illness inducing. A brief THC-induced stay has doubled the # of terrorist thoughts I've had...go BC pipeline bomber!!
...that is, GOP induced quality-control problems truned my sleep aid into quite the opposite.
Hypocrisy or not, Harper has helped to crerate/continue a dialogue on suicide that is long overdue. http://leftbehindbysuicide.org/
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