To a depressing degree, most of our society's efforts against suicide work like this. The issue gets ignored altogether until someone is perceived to be in imme

To a depressing degree, most of our society's efforts against suicide work like this. The issue gets ignored altogether until someone is perceived to be in immediate danger, and then they either get support or (all too often) a three day psychiatric hold. This process is terrible on so many levels. The psych hold in particular is both excessive (f someone isn't suicidal, it's a pointless kidnapping) and insufficient. (If someone just attempted suicide, they're at low risk right after. If someone gets antidepressants, three days isn't long enough for them to kick in.) I suppose Facebook isn't in a position to help earlier on (at least, not without even more privacy invasion), but we definitely don't intervene in this issue at sensible times.