SO got called to a residents unit for a so called spill on their balcony.
The spill was the remains of another resident, who had jumped from 10 stories above. The person had fallen through this resident’s glass table, deformed the redwood decking on top of concrete, and his demolished head was in her demolished planter.
So was the first one to see this. He had to guide the cops to that scene and to the penthouse auditorium where lo and behold there’s a walker with a chair squished up nearby with a footprint on it right next to the balcony. And while guiding the cops—there were at least 10 cars there—he encounters the widow who doesn’t know she’s one yet saying that she just went to the store, now her hubs isn’t answering the cell, what is going on.
And then he’s passing through the dining room. No service, but at the end of the hall is the resident whose condo is for now an active crime scene. She’s sitting there all alone, so went over there. She said friends were coming.
I told him to ask the hr director for the e ap number but he won’t do it
They stressed that a jumping had not happened in the 35 years since inception.
However, the protracted stage of senior decline has elongated. The more operations and procedures one has to avoid the terminal exit, the longer one stays on the road to either immobility or dementia.
No one wants to deal with that reality.
We need "unlike" buttons as well has "like".
As far as his facility, they have motion detectors in all units. If a resident hasn’t checked herself out, someone goes to check on her within 24 hours.
I believe many people feel the same way. There should be better and humane ways for people to end their lives than jumping off balconies, blowing their brains out or hanging and breaking their necks.
This is a horrible thing to read about someone falling from off a balcony and dying.
I wonder if some signs of early dementia could also be a contributing factor in high rise deaths.
It sounds as though this place needs some mental health staff.
About six weeks prior, another man removed much of his head with a gun he had in the storage unit.
The residents deserve to have their own seminar about this. The last thing anyone needs is for suicides to become a trend, especially those that endanger other people.