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That advice is basically, don't work in your chosen vocation. Running animal rehabilitation is not free, you need some sort of source of funding.
If your job is causing you enough mental anguish to go through with suicide, it's reasonable to suggest you find another. That goes for any job.
If you are just working for money, yeah.
People work for things that benefit everyone at a personal cost all the time, and advances are made because of people like that. It's a good thing, which had tragic consequences in this instance.
We need to protect people who put the world before themselves. This isn't her failing, it's ours.
I'm in agreement with you, though I still think it's a fair suggestion for people putting the world before themselves to find another line of work too. I'm not saying that's the only reasonable suggestion. I'm all for trying to mitigate the risk of abuse and trauma in the first place. I took Optional's comment as an intended show of support to folks that might be struggling with similar abuse in their life.
Alright, but in general just leaving the work to other people doesn't mitigate, it just shifts the abuse to other people.
Social workers, emergency aid, etc have high suicide rates.
If it's "just a job" like working retail at Target, sure, that's a respectable take. It's still blaming the victim, but it's also advocating for the victim to address the issue themselves.
But if it's not "just a job"? If it's your life's work, your calling, something you love more than anything else?
That idea is very likely what drove her to the brink. You really have no fucking clue what you're talking about.
I've been there and I almost didn't survive. Choosing to live isn't always so easy.
And yet animal rehabilitation exists all over the world and has for decades without it. Somehow.
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