It’s like saying “oh my what a pointless unnecessary and preventable death” is just too feeble. It is beyond understatement.

I had my share of isolation and restraints done to me. I lived with it and watched it happen to young teenage girls and boys for years as a teen in the juvenile mental health system.

You can not ever ever expect that forced isolation, restraints and deprivation to be therapy for anyone. It’s punishment, pure and simple. Regardless of the reason or institution, penal, psychiatric or other.

It violates not just a person’s liberty. It violates their mind and body, and then spirit. When the spirit is crushed hard enough, and freedom from that suffering is not in sight, then the spirit has every right to check out. That is not life. It is not living. It’s traumatic. When it is done to people inpatient or incarcerated, it adds to the sum of all their problems.

In a sense, I am glad she escaped her suffering and can try again next life. I would do the same thing if I knew I could never escape.