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My suicide cleanup prices reflect prices that only a self-employed suicide cleanup technician dares charge. No suicide cleanup company with employees matches my prices, flexibility, or cleaning. I add value to suicide cleanup services by removing additional carpet and padding. This becomes important for reducing odors.
My experience as a suicide cleanup technician becomes very important during California's warmer months. Decomposition of blood and other potentially infectious materials (OPIM) cause odor problems. I may not remove all death odors, but I do reduce them. If clients prefer that I remove all death odors, this issue fall within the scope of my services.
Written Guarantee
California's residents and business owners receive a guarantee for my work. A written guarantee stating that I will return upon request means exactly what it says. No suicide cleanup company should offer any less. If you have odor issues, please follow my written directions before requesting my return.
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Written Guarantee
Besides a written guarantee I have a fixed price. This is a "not to exceed" price. I charge no more than than what I quote on the telephone. I then ask that you email me with my quoted price and the nature of the work that I have agreed to complete. In return, I respond to your email from an American Online address. I restate the price as agreed upon. I agree to do the work. I agree to return if I have somehow missed something.
If additional materials are needed, like sealing paints, I ask my clients to pay for them. Otherwise, my price does not exceed the quoted price. California residents receive this price whether or not their home or business has insurance for suicide cleanup claims.
My price does increase the farther that I must drive; yet, most often my not-to-exceed price beats my competitors price.
Ozone gas and chemical fogging are included in decontamination of biohazards resulting from blood and decomposition. My suicide cleanup efforts include decontamination efforts from start to finish. In fact, my first act upon arrival is decontamination of the suicide area.
Suicide Explained (in part)xplained, in pa
Everyone will sooner or later consider suicide as an option, no matter how rosy their life may be. Recall the many rich celebrities that have committed suicide for reasons unknown. It is an inescapable fact of life that we too must consider suicide sooner or later.
By the nature of language and thinking, we must consider suicide as an option under some conditions or no conditions. The only way of not thinking of suicide, sooner or later, would require a Universe with no suicide. In fact, it is just the same with criminal behavior and crime scene cleanup.
Like crime, the first act of suicide condemned humanity to ponder suicide for the rest of human history. It also lead to the first suicide cleanup, and possibly painful psychological consequences as a result.
We work through the logic of suicide simply as a "last resort" hypotheses in some unimaginable world, or we simply look at it to unravel why anyone would end their own life. In doing so, we must in some manner place ourselves in the other's shoes for at least a moment.
In social psychology, George Herbert Mead's Philosophy of the Act, the self has internalized objects to place against the sense of self. This occurs as gestures, symbols, and significant symbols become objects to the self, each playing some part in creation of the human mind. Self develops in infancy as the infant takes its place in a Universe of language. In this way as infants grow and understand, these internalized objects serve as internalized reference points. Naturally, "dada" and "mama" become the first internalized objects and significant others. As the self grows so to does its inventory of objects.
The truth of suicidal ideas for one's self has a long history for each individual. Usually in childhood this issue arises. "I'll show them . . . . " Of course these life ending ideas come in other forms of thinking an acting, too. It happens that during childhood some children make a pact with their future. It's a pact for conditions met or unmet. So if some unknown condition arises and it has something to do with a childhood's whimsical suicide pact, it comes to play a part in acting out a suicide, given the conditions.
In Psychoanalysis, an internalized object exists for similar reasons, as a point of reference, as a sounding board, an "other" for helping to figure out the world we live in. At times this object, the "other," becomes a target as the self seeks to explain misfortune, pain, anxiety, or depression. In some way the self must rid itself of this other or continue to suffer. Ultimately, suicide becomes the one certain means of ridding the self of this other, even at the cost of suicide. (Psychoanalytic Understanding of Violence and Suicide) In this way the self becomes guiltless for whatever ails it and the other becomes the source of self's woes.
Suicide and Shame
There is the theory of shame to help explain suicide. The notion here is that the self suffers too greatly from shame, rightfully of wrongfully imagined. Are the thoughts associated with shame responsible for the feelings of shame? "I am ashamed of what I have done" comes either from the self talking to its self, or from the self's other talking to the self. This is indeed an internalized dialogue.
Figuring out how the self became ashamed of its self or internalized other is more than a semantics game. It becomes a matter of life or death as the victim finds strength enough to destroy the internalized other at any expense, even destruction of the self. In the end, knowledge of shame drives the self beyond its ability to cope with the imagined consequences of surviving. The other (super-ego: psychoanalysis; significant other: Social Psychology) may have become perpetrator or victim of an act too terrible to live with.
My wife and I became aware of county employee corruption in the suicide cleanup business about ten years ago. We figured it out because I own numerous suicide cleanup web sites and receive so few calls for suicide cleanup from California residents.
Actually, in some counties I receive more calls from out of state families calling for their lost loved one in California. Anyway, here's a solution, in part, for stopping this victimization of suicide victims' families:
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Public Notice
County employees do not recommend private companies. Please do not ask for a recommendation.
California Board of Supervisors
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Ask your county's leaders to have simi liar public information notices placed wherever the public contacts county employees. Insist of government transparency.
Call at any hour, any day and a professional crime scene cleaner will take your call. Our goal is to help return biologically soiled dwellings and buildings to their pre-incident contrition discreetly, respectfully.
More information at Biosafe may have interest for some readers.
Ed Evans
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