Get a government that cares about their people (mental health care for everybody who needs it & a solid social security net) and these kind of stories should become very rare.
I down voted this because most mentally ill people I know don't want "care". They don't want pills and they don't want to be normal.
It's our bill of rights that prevents us from forcing help on these people and, while it's sad for them, I rather like our strict policy on NOT being able to just call someone crazy and force them into an institution.
