You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

TheOtherDave comments on How would you talk a stranger off the ledge? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: MoreOn 23 January 2012 02:52PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (97)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 23 January 2012 06:50:13PM 2 points [-]

I endorse most of this, though I'll note that in cases of profound depression my emotional response to being invited to consider near-future events may well be to assert that no, actually, there's nothing I actually want to do.

Also...

if someone has a genuine, premeditated and well-thought-out intention to end their life, you won't find out about it until they've already done it.

Often, not even then.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 23 January 2012 07:37:09PM 0 points [-]

When I started writing this, I found I had a lot more that I wanted to say than could have been squeezed into a moderate length comment, which is why it ends kind of abruptly. There are so many possible caveats and special cases to make it difficult to assemble all-purpose advice on the subject.