in the field of suicide studies (or suicidology), baril is described as the first to theorize the oppression of suicidal people from an intersectional, anti-ableist, and anti-sanist perspective. to do so, he borrows from robert mcruer’s crip theories (2006) as well as from the field of critical disability studies on disability to "interpret suicidal thoughts and gestures” and creates what he calls the “socio-subjective model of disability.” he maintains that suicidal individuals should be able to speak freely about their thoughts, not just for the sake of enriching approaches to suicide prevention, but also to assist, using a harm reduction approach, those suicidal individuals who are determined to die by suicide when their need to die is profound and stable.