[Jim Noble]

the difficulties with getting someone involuntarily committed became too much

That's true, but incomplete.

There is nowhere to put someone like this Yao character, and, if there were, there's no arrangement to pay for it.

[Wallace T.]

In the distant past, someone like Yao might have been found dead several months later, buried in a shallow grave in an isolated area. He would have been sent to his Maker quietly by neighbors, using what we now call, shoot, shovel, and shut up.

[Wallace T.]

In the distant past, someone like Yao might have been found dead several months later, buried in a shallow grave in an isolated area. He would have been sent to his Maker quietly by neighbors, using what we now call, shoot, shovel, and shut up.

[Wuli]

I was not being incomplete.

The lack of available spaces for the involuntarily committed is one of the problems that was conjoined with the issue of getting the commitment signed - the two issues go together; you cannot commit people if there is no place to go, and the theme at the time was “half way houses” and such, which (a) did not work in many cases, and (b) saw constant NIMBY issues, and (c) never got the per-patient resources that had been spent on the old institutions.

The problems are the problems, they are all related.

[goodnesswins]

There USED to be places...and I believe it was a government funded “place.”