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Originally Posted by joglynne
Very well put peanut.
I have been following this thread and had decided not to post as the whole subject of this man's attempted suicide and the successful outcome has been trivialised by some who I would have thought better of.
I have a suicide plan set up and if I ever reach the point that I give up fighting to live and I feel there is no reason to carry on then I hope I have someone like the Police officers next to me rather than certain members of this forum. This man now has a chance of a future and, one way or another, I can only hope he will be given the attention and help he needs.
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I never questioned whether he had a need for help, nor whether he had a future, my only questioning was whether in the 29 hours he was there, an earlier opportunity may not have been possible to remove him from the location he was in where he had the potential to do harm to himself or others, and relocate him to where professional help was available, if that required the use of a force multiplier, which would be the taser, in order to facilitate him being restrained and less likely to jump, then surely that would have been of benefit to him? Once situations like that arise the priority has to be his safety, and treatment in that order.