And so is the potential cost of not doing anything, so what's your point?
You seem to conjecture that refering someone to a hotline raises the chance of that person commiting suicide, while AFAIK all the evidence points towards suicide hotlines being effective at reducing stress and suicidality.
Sorry, what? Not doing anything may result in a false sense of satisfaction?
> seem to conjecture that refering someone to a hotline raises the chance of that person commiting suicide
I don't conjecture this at all.
> all the evidence points towards suicide hotlines being effective at reducing stress and suicidality.
What evidence? The entire point of this subthread is that we don't have any evidence that this is true. Or do you have some evidence we don't know about?
