On 02/10/2007, RLS evendell@gmail.com wrote:
Let's say I was the one who found the note. I personally have no idea how to phone the London police for an urgent matter from Kansas, USA. By the time I Googled some sort of instructions on how to do so, a timely e-mail to the list could already have prompted someone else to do so and the police would have already been on their way.
I don't agree with this, I just looked up the phone number with google and found it within about 30 seconds (I found a UK-local free call number even more quickly). And if you called your local operator and explained, they could very, very probably do something for you, such as contact the UK operators who can sort it out.
Besides, the wikipedia already has a written process for this: WP:SUICIDE; and following a link brought me to: Wikipedia:Helping_suicidal_individuals#United_Kingdom which links me to the UK Samaritans.
Spamming this list with suicide threats is rather inappropriate (but not as inappropriate as ignoring it).
--Darkwind