Sep 3, 2018 · 1 min read
Nice article! Thanks!
It just reminded me that sometimes even just a simple usability restraint can prevent something as dramatic as suicide.
“In England, death by asphyxiation from breathing oven fumes had accounted for roughly half of all suicides up until the 1970s, when Britain began converting ovens from coal gas, which contains lots of carbon monoxide, to natural gas, which has almost none. During that time, suicides plummeted roughly 30 percent — and the numbers haven’t changed since.”
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92319314&t=1535986414726