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> There are 24/7 suicide prevention hotlines at least in many countries in Europe as well as US states. My understanding is these will generally just send the
by formerly_proven 1y ago
> There are 24/7 suicide prevention hotlines at least in many countries in Europe as well as US states.
My understanding is these will generally just send the cops after you if the operator concludes you are actually suicidal and not just looking for someone to talk to for free.
- basisword 1y agoI mean that's clearly a good thing. If you are actually suicidal then you need someone to intervene. But there is a large gulf between depressed and suicidal and those phone lines can help without outside assistance in those cases.
- mschuster91 1y ago> If you are actually suicidal then you need someone to intervene. Yeah, trained medics, not "cops" that barely had a few weeks worth of training and only know how to operate guns.
- floor2 1y ago> just send the cops after you > > that's clearly a good thing You might want to read up on how interactions between police and various groups in the US tend to go. Sending the cops after someone is always going to be dangerous and often harmful. If the suicidal person is female, white and sitting in a nice house in the suburbs, they'll likely survive with just a slightly traumatizing experience. If the suicidal person is male, black or has any appearance of being lower class, the police are likely to treat them as a threat, and they're more likely to be assaulted, arrested, harassed or killed than they are to receive helpful medical treatment. If I'm ever in a near-suicidal state, I hope no one calls the cops on me, that's a worst nightmare situation.
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