Comments on: Facebook friend helps avert suicide from 3,000 miles away

A 16-year-old in England tells one of his Facebook friends in Maryland that he is contemplating suicide. She doesn't know the boy's address, but with the help of her parents and the British Embassy, a life is saved.

[RadiantStar09]

This happened to me. I was talking with this woman on facebook that lives in Canada and she told me she was going to overdose in her room then. I got her information while talking with her and i told another friend and while i was talking her out of it, my friend called her information and found it was a grouphome and they went in and stopped her while i was talking to her. I believe that it was God's leading that i talk with someone i really didnt know too well at that time of day. To think that I almost didnt talk to her! WOW

[BlitzBoy1120]

Lucky to have friends like that. I'm glad I have friends like her too.

[Lerianis3]

Not going to help at all. Sure, you have prevented his suicide THIS time, but statistics show that people who are contemplating suicide do it within 5 years of that first thinking about it, period.
Even with treatment and mental health help, because they cannot be oblivious idiots like most of the people in this world and have realized how our world is going down the toilet.

[BGXterra]

lol and here i thought that i was the only one that thought the same

[sanenazok]

When has the world *not* been going down the toilet? Certainly it would do so a lot faster if everyone thought this way. There's always plenty of reason to be unhappy and want to check out due to terminal decline of society. Constant decay is a way of life. Welcome to the world! You have to find fulfillment in something even if it's writing morose messages on anonymous web boards.

[AngryCanadian]

Just curious, what statistics did you use to come up with this? I know that some people do in fact commit suicide within five years of their first attempt, but not everybody does. I should certainly hope not anyway otherwise this post was written by a corpse. What are the percentages?

Also, in many cases, people who are suicidal don't specifically want to die. They just want to end their pain and suffering, and death is certainly one way to do that. Having the right people around though, as this boy seems to, can go a long way though.

[rayzoredge]

Today, Facebook helps someone avert suicide.

Before, Twitter helped someone get out of jail from another country.

Long before, phones were invented and have been there, done that.

[CortalUX]

Eh, I've done the same thing on Facebook myself; admittedly, we were divided by 300 miles, not an ocean, but still. Sounds quite common.