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

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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