Why in the world would you think that? This is life or death. Many people feel very strongly about rescuing suicidal people
. Of course there are resources for it. I hope everyone realizes this is not a safe site to post things about taking your own life on. It's announcing in public you are trying to kill yourself basically and is open for the world to see.
There are so many people who make it their business to snoop here and want to rescue people. UK seems to be the worst in this regard as far as I can tell.
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Ill address the points one by one.
This is life or death". It can be, but generally its not that extreme and is somewhere in the middle. Most of the conversations dont involve a tangible lead for a rescuer. Ie im ctb in 30 mins using ... method. Most threads are discussions (granted, many about ctb) but you cannot really be sectioned for talking about ctb unless you are specifically showing that your a danger to yourself and need immediate help.
"Many people feel very strongly about rescuing suicidal people" I agree with This.
Why in the world would you think that? Of course there are resources for it.
Firstly i agree that there are resources but i dont believe they would be widely used to put staff on here. The nhs has finite resources. These resources have to be managed wisely, and be used in the most effective way.
In the uk, approx 17 people a day die from suicide. This forum is global and we dont lose anywhere near that number per day on here. We might get a handful of goodbye threads per week, globally.
So lets specualte that we lose one uk member per week on a goodbye thread on here. In the wider community approx 119 people have ctb. So percentage wise less than 1 percent of uk suicides have took place and showed a trace here. I think it would be a lot less than 1 percent tbh.
It wouldnt make sense to put your staff on here just in case they can catch someone. Plus if someone was in london or a big city, they would have to find that person somehow.
It would make more sense to deploy your resources on real leads ie mental health referrals, recent hospital admissions, checking up on known vulnerable people, than an elusive forum like this.