On 02/10/2007, RLS <evendell(a)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
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-Ian Woollard
We live in an imperfectly imperfect world. If we lived in a perfectly imperfect world
things would be a lot better.