[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Redway

Samaritans is completely anonymous so unless you volunteer revealing information, there’s nothing Samaritans can do about you swallowing a month’s supply of amitriptyline or saying you’re about to jump off a bridge. They won’t know your name, they don’t know your number, they don’t know where you’re calling from. They really only know and have the ability to act on what you tell them.

They’d obviously rather you didn’t go through with it but if your mind’s set and you’ve decided that you want your last conversation to be with a Samaritan, there’s nothing they can do if you don’t want them to help you. Self-determination within Samaritans means that you ultimately have the right to take your own life and that’s the bottom-line. And you’re well-within your rights to torture a volunteer by making them listen to you jump, hang or swallow.

I think it would be imo valuable for The Samaritans to make it that the caller has to at least give their name, so that they have a better chance of tracking the caller, if the caller is trying to kill themselves.