Suicide Cleanup Information

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When needed our suicide cleanup efforts include ozone decontamination of wide areas. Depending on what we find, we might ozone before cleaning begins or after. Sometimes suicide cleanup requires ozone, work, and then more ozone. It depends.

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We remove the source material, clean, disinfect, and seal. We do our best to ensure that we have done more than expected.

Suicide cleanup takes time, patience, and forethought. An ability to remain in the moment, to be-here-now, helps to avoid duplicating efforts. Blood and other materials once removed should not be handled a second time.

By cleaning 3 times during suicide cleanup we ensure safety for all. Disinfecting with chemicles suitable to the scene follows. We cannot advocate using chemicles to do what we expect cleaning to do.

Exotic Chemicles

Chemicles do not make a suicide cleanup safe. If anything, chemicles create an added risk for contaminating survivors with toxic residues. Industrial strength chemicles belong in industrial settings, not in homes. Rendering plants, slaughter houses, and other activities creating great quantities of blood and other infectious materials need industrial strength chemicles.

The suicide cleanup technician, not the chemicles made the suicide scene safe for habitation.

We try not to use "exotic" chemicles. Because of their unknown consequences if somehow left behind on material, we use commonly bought chemicles from Home Depot or Lowes. In this way our clients have ready access to information about the chemicles we use. Such chemicles carry claims for their disinfecting power. We trust the trademarked disinfectants in the context of our cleaning efforts.

We have no way to know if "exotics" perform any better than over-the-counter disinfectants. Given the opportunity, we would replace ozone decontamination with Hydrogen Peroxide Vapour because it receives high marks. Because this technology's recent development and high cost at the present, it is not practical for wide use in suicide cleanup.

Suicide Narrative - Numbers and History

Modern languages like English coined "self-muerderer" and "suicide" in the 17th century. The French started using the term "suicide" in the 18th century. A book published in 1542 by Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, he mentions suicide.

Since before the tools of suicide became available, archiological evidence indicates that pre-historic societies experienced suicides in their ranks. Most likely suicide occured by jumping from heights. When rope became available suicide occured by hanging, which still ranks as the number one method for suicide in Europe.

It seems ironic in at least two ways that humanity became suicidal. In one instance, our self-knowledge, our knowing "self," became a target for our own self-homicide. In the other instance our advancing technologies lead to more effective suicidal behavior.

Suicide Numbers

Suicide accounts for about one and one-half percent of of deaths world-wide. This figures out to about twelve suicide victims to one-hundred thousand. About seventy-three percent of these occur among white males. White women account for about 17% of suicides. After eighty-five white male suicides taper off.

Hand Guns

Suicide cleanup in the USA most often follows suicide by handgun. And about 73% of the time the suicide victims are white males. Women tend to use drugs, although roughly forty percent use handguns. Lethality and ease of access attribute successful suicides to handgun acceptance in US society.

Older White Males

Of the suicides among men, the largest percentage occur among older men. Some suicideologists believe that older men become alienatted, cut off, from society. They become lonely, impoverished, and suffer debilitating pain because of illnesses. Depression adds to their overall risk of suicide, but hopelessness and lonliness rank as the ideation responsible for moving the victim to commit the final act.

Suicide studies accounted for my reading and writing because suicide figures so heavily in the human condition. The many stories I read in World Literature alluded to suicide many times.

Philosophies of many writers examined suicide. The existential writers placed suicide within their literature through characters and explained existential philosophically through their characters' predicaments.

About four years ago suicide cleanup lead me to a young wife. The work turned out to be more involved than either of us first thought possible. Suicide cleanup has a way of leading to prolonged conversations when survivors wish to contemplate the reasons for suicide.

I remained true to my quoted price. The young wife showed her kindest side by taking me into her confidence. Basically, I remained nearly silent as she spoke about her husband, his family, her family, and their friends.

Later, with my suicide cleanup work completed, she asked me to remain in her home with her and her friends for the evening. “How can I refuse,” I asked myself. Why she brought me into her personal life I cannot say, and I could not back out of her life at this point. “Just go with it” I reflected.

I have looked for similarities and patterns in my suicide cleanup work. I never expected to have an interest in suicide notes or anything related to my clients' life and situation. Professionally, the suicide cleanup technician should remain detached. At least, this is what I have always thought.

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