자살구조 현황 및 문제점 분석을 통한 대응방안

Abstract

In 2017, the number of suicide completers was 12,463 across the country, which was equivalent to 34.2 persons a day. The causes of suicide are varied like economic difficulty, family troubles, loneliness and solitude, physical/mental illnesses, and suicide rate of previous suicide attempters is about 25 times higher than that of ordinary people. Suicide is a very personal matter and those who commit a suicide choose such an extreme act going through the process of suicidal ideation-suicidal plan-suicide attempt. Families or friends are not able to sense such suicidal symptoms in advance during the process and police authority tends to be exercised only at the stage of their actual suicide attempt. Internal notice boards in the National police Agency are posting rescue cases for suicide attempters every day and yet even when the number of previous attempts of suicide attempters was often numerous, police has been merely engaged in repeated normal rescue activities with no information on suicide attempters. Even following the rescue, suicide attempters are often simply delivered to their families without professional counseling or help because of limited protection of personal information and lack of transfer system between the related organizations. In this process, blind spots are to take place ultimately and suicide prevention teams may require extra time identifying the cause of their suicide attempts,consequently losing their golden time. Under the circumstances, the study sought to identify problems arising from non-sharing of information among the related organizations in the process of the current suicide rescue and to exactly asses them through real examples. Along the way, the study analyzed the process of suicide rescue and the problems in follow-up system based on the present state of 112 report from the National Police Agency. As counter measures, the study suggested firstly establishment and operation of an integrated system for suicide-related information, secondly the revision of regulations related with suicide rescue, thirdly operation of a substantial consultative body for suicide prevention. In our path towards rescue of suicide attempters, a system should be introduced without fail whereby they are offered with NEDIS statistics in real time at least and police dissipate personal information acquired by themselves during the rescue quickly to related organizations. For this, relevant regulations currently pending at the National Assembly should be revised in the first place and a real-time integrated system for suicide-related information should be built. Suicide attempters should be safely rescued by collaboration of related organizations such as suicide prevention centers by the area, police, firefighters in particular. And mutual information should be shared to block re-attempt of previous suicide attempters, and suicide could decrease only if substantial activities of consultative bodies for suicide prevention government-wide be implemented.