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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

As part of their training, the original report in Government Executive says, some callers may express suicidal ideation, and they give examples using a theoretical employee named Fiona. "It's important for Fiona to keep the caller engaged and to remind her that suicide is only one option," the trainer tells the workers in a video. The Government Executive has a copy of the video, it says. Workers receiving the training were shocked and asked for clarification.

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Soon to be the only option.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-18 04:15 PM | Reply

Where's our Christian Calvary to denounce suicide as being against the teachings of the Bible?

Also, what other country is suggesting their citizens commit suicide so the wealthy can remain rich?

#2 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-18 04:23 PM | Reply

- suicide as being against the teachings of the Bible?

There's no direct instruction against suicide in scripture; it's not said to be in itself some kind of sin... however, the whole idea is living a good life and loving others as you love yourself.

I looked into this 20 years ago when I got a call from a Houston Police Detective to tell me that my that my younger brother had pulled his van over to the side of road on the Gulf Coast, plugged a hose into the exhaust, and ran it into the running van.

Then he got in the back and went to sleep.

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-02-18 04:40 PM | Reply

As I posted elsewhere, the tiny global elite are vastly outnumbered by the masses who are using up their precious resources.

By numbers, the masses can and should overthrow our sinister overlords.

Think of the world as one large apartheid-era Suid-Afrika. The tiny privileged Boers are greatly outnumbered.

So in a Malthusian manner, these elitists are culling the herd, hence eliminating vaccines, dismantling USAID, withdrawing from WHO, loosening gun restrictions, and promoting suicide.

Oligarch Vladimir Putin sends one thousand of his own citizens to death every day in suicidal meat attacks against the Ukrainians.

This suicide promotion for the great unwashed masses is found in the Sci-Fi novel "Make Room! Make Room!" which was later made into the classic film "Soylent Green."

On Tuesday 5 Nov 2024, another day that will live in infamy, 76,535,898 idiots voted to usher in this dystopic nightmare upon us all.


#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-18 04:41 PM | Reply

Re 3

If Heaven is as Marvelous as advertised it always makes me wonder what everyone (who believes this) is waiting around here on this dirty nasty bug and drug ridden Democrat infested planet for.

#5 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 05:31 PM | Reply

#5 Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven; But Nobody Wants To Die

#6 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-18 05:35 PM | Reply

Always is an option, for anyone.

"To be or not to be . . ." and all that.

#7 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2026-02-18 06:48 PM | Reply

www.youtube.com

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-18 07:20 PM | Reply

Well at least they got to be Seniors!

In Canada they whack the 26yo.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-02-18 08:35 PM | Reply

In Canada they whack the 26yo.

POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

In China they literally threw the baby out with the bath water.

If it was a girl.

China's One-Child Policy (1979"2015) profoundly impacted infants, resulting in a severe gender imbalance due to a high preference for sons. It caused millions of "missing" girls through sex-selective abortion, abandonment, and neglect.

Surviving children often grew up as "little emperors" with high parental investment but increased risk-aversion and lower competitiveness.

Are you one of those "little emperors" born between 1975-2015? That could explain a lot.

#10 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-18 09:20 PM | Reply

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