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athrowaway3ztoday at 3:47 PM0 repliesview on HN

I wasn't going to comment, but this is just too dumb on too many levels.

The hotline is not the way to deal with suicidality - suicidality is a longer process and something you can ask your GP about and most help is covered under most western versions of universal health care.

The hotline is an idea that intervenes in the last steps of a suicide process. The idea can reach into the moment where people have convinced themselves they're stuck - and they can reach out with extremely low effort or barrier to entry.

If you have some better 'idea' we can spread into the culture that does this better, then by all means enlighten us.

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You could have made a case and started a discussion how too many people see the existence of the hotline as _the_ way to deal with suicidality, but you didn't. You just decided to spread some shallow vibe nonsense.