My brother-in-law tried to kill himself yesterday.
His wife divorced him a few months ago.
I left my wife two years ago, and became so lonely, I thought about killing myself.
I moved back in with my wife after five months apart. That was all I could stand.
As a way to fill in the gaps in companionship, people should have legal, clean, healthy prostitutes.
And since I am saying a person needs a prostitute at least as badly as a person needs a zoloft pill, if you want socialized medicine, you need to consider means tested subsidies for prostitution services. Priced according to ability to pay, with the rest of the fee paid with tax dollars.
Jesse Ventura said it:
If it's legal, then the girls could have health checks, union, benefits, anything any other worker gets, and it would be far better.
If you think that lonely men and women should just go ahead and kill themselves, rather than to stoop so low as to pay for companionship, then I disagree with you.
If you think a prostitute is only a poor substitute for a good, solid relationship, I agree.
But when a person is about to drown, he or she needs some kind of life preserving raft. That is not a substitute for a big ship, or dry land. But in time of urgent need, it is a reasonable option.