From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!billw Newsgroups: net.suicide Title: so when do you intervene? - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5351 Posted: Wed Mar 9 07:17:37 1983 Received: Fri Mar 11 21:20:23 1983 #N:sri-unix:2200007:000:533 sri-unix!billw Mar 1 01:10:00 1983 So. Just how well do you have to know someone before you start interfering in their life just because you have this fantasy of preventing a suicide? Presumably this varies with the strength of the evidence, ie its OK to take a complete stranger with blood spurting from their wrists to the hospital, but you don't walk up and give a stranger a hug just because they aren't smiling at the moment. It's the middle ground that's confusing. On a somewhat related note, what about lesser forms of self destruction? seriously BillW