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Helping out suicidal people
I know that advicenators.com keeps information about suicidal people confidential, but I believe that if the person who asks the question is seriously suicidal, threatens to commit suicide until he's successful, or leaves a suicide note, his info must be handed over to professionals. This is the only place where their lives could be saved. I don't know how this could be worked out, but I believe this is a very serious responsibility.
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I agree, it is a very serious situation when someone warns someone else that they're going to try and commit suicide. There is no other situation that is more serious, although there are some that are as bad.
I can see where you're coming from, that each suicidal person's information should be handed over to the professionals, but I don't know if there is a way of responding to all those calls and all the other serious events in the world without either exhausting the helpers or losing people along the way.
There are only so many people able to help those who feel suicidal, the Samaritans etc who would, if suicide had actually been attempted, pass it on to the paramedics. They would have to choose between the wide range of emergencies they have to deal with, road accidents, fights, women in labour, sriminal injuries, drug overdoses, stabbings.... the list could go on.
It's not a perfect world we live in but we try to do our best.
Hope this helps to explain the situation a bit.
Best wishes X.
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that would be a serious breech in privacy.its the internet who knows who could have you number there has to be strict rules.
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We're treading a very fine line here. If we tell people, we are interfering where they may not want us to. Also, advicenators is accessible to people all around the world. If someone from India is talking about how they wish to commit suicide, it would be hard to figure out what professional to refer it to. Advicenators would have to hunt down the authority that deals with it. India is a *vast* country. There are around 27 states. Then regional government. Then local government. We would have to be able to produce some sort of database of every single authority in the world that could deal with that.
And it's hard to see exactly where the person is based (I assume).
The best thing that we can do, is to give good advice. Re-assure the person. Talk to them. Tell them that everything will be okay, eventually. We can even point them to professionals, if they state where they are from.
But it would be close to impossible for advicenators to direct the person straight to a professional.
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