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Old 14-05-2008, 11:12 AM
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Moral support online is exactly my point also Tammy... it achieves nothing and only creates chaos in many other lives. A member has to take responsibility for their own life... intervention even by a friend does not stop suicide if someone wants to do it... the only thing that can stop it is professional intervention by hospitalisation, and even then, suicide under suicide watch still happens, because if someone wants to die they will.

If someone thinks they want to die, but really they just want help, then they have to stick their hand up to those around them and ask for that help, and that doesn't involve being online... it is face to face people within their lives.