From: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!sun!megatest!fortune!hpda!hplabs!sri-unix!billw Newsgroups: net.suicide Title: so when do you intervene? - (nf) Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5233 Posted: Tue Mar 1 04:15:34 1983 Received: Tue Mar 8 02:17:10 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