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Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

What does that policy mean?

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.