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Re:Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress by benchaney on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:22AM (#14200880)
The real cost of doing something because something must be done is the false sense of satisfaction. That cost is potentially very high in this case.
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Re:Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @02:24AM (#14200891)
An educated guess now is better then perfect data later.

We should of course continue to research ways to stem suicides and the conditions that cultivate someone feeling they have no other options.

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Re:Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress by cryptarch on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @09:37AM (#14202791)
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.

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Re:Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress by benchaney on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @12:05PM (#14204216)
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?

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