MugaSofer comments on How to Seem (and Be) Deep - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 09 January 2013 11:13:47AM *  -1 points [-]

Well, that's a best-case scenario. Obviously opportunity costs and such might make it impractical. But if possible you should prevent them from killing themself and work on persuading them not to try.

I don't work in suicide prevention and I don't know anyone who does; this is just my judgement of the hypothetical scenario presented (with a few additional assumptions for details that weren't specified.)