The people of Ireland are living in a 'suicide box'

We live in a Suicide Box – a horrible phrase, but an apt metaphor for how we live today, says author Lucy Costigan.

Suicide tends to be attributed either to a mental illness or ‘weakness’ which renders some people less able to cope with the pressures of living than others, or to a “mystery,” observes Costigan, co-author of a thought-provoking new book on the subject.

But that’s wrong, says the former therapist, adding that after two years of research she and her fellow author have concluded that suicide is actually the result of intolerable emotional and psychological pain inflicted on ordinary people by a complex mix of factors rooted in the sick society or ‘suicide box’ in which they live.