The phantasm of zero suicide

In the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter, Christian Rück debates Sweden’s zero vision for suicide. He argues that the zero vision creates the false notion that all suicides are preventable and that it places additional blame on families and health professionals. This risks making efforts to reduce cases more difficult.

Read the article (in Swedish) here.

Manne Sjöstrand is the research team’s expert on medical ethics. In this paper from 2023, he develops a critical position on Vision Zero as a way to reduce suicide.