Saturday, February 09, 2019

Parking Lot Suicides

The parking lot suicides
Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2019/02/07/feature/the-parking-lot-suicides/?utm_term=.51ee613a5f76

Miller was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and suicidal thoughts when he checked into the Minneapolis Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in February 2018. After spending four days in the mental-health unit, Miller walked to his truck in VA’s parking lot and shot himself in the very place he went to find help.

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