r/nextfuckinglevel • u/bendubberley_ • 1d ago

A police officer in Mexico prevents someone's suicide attempt, on a bridge, with no safety equipment.

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u/Xacktastic 1d ago

Idk, better to have your agency than be stuck in a box. The criminalization of suicide is fucking stupid. 

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u/love6471 1d ago

Putting someone in a psychiatric ward is not criminalizing suicide. It's a precaution to save lives. What do you think he would do if they just immediately released him? I've been committed by the police. Sucks and feels like a punishment at the time, but it saved my life and was 1000x better than a jail cell.

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u/kilerzone1213 1d ago

Why shouldn't his life be his own choice though? Like I totally commend saving him to give him a chance to reconsider, but if he chooses to try again, why stop him?

Edit: I didn't stop to think about the fact that he's doing it in public, that could definitely be a reason to stop him

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u/EstablishmentOk7859 1d ago

humanity homie, the little bit that we got left.

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u/kilerzone1213 1d ago

Nothing inhumane about letting people have agency over when their own lives end. Again, I commend saving him, cause these decisions are often made rashly and in haste after a particularly bad day/event. But after his chance to reconsider, why should the government have the authority to say, no you can't die right now?

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u/EstablishmentOk7859 1d ago

because me personally, i don’t wanna be going on about my day and see someone blow their brains out, or jump off a bridge to their death.

maybe their should be other alternatives, instead of making a public display.

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u/kilerzone1213 1d ago

Yeah, which is the argument I made against it in my edit in the first comment. He should be allowed to do it privately though, if he still wants to.

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u/supreme-manlet 1d ago

No body is stopping him from doing so

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u/kilerzone1213 1d ago

Locking him up in the psych ward is doing that

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u/supreme-manlet 1d ago

Because he chose to do it publicly

He could’ve done it in him home

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u/D00M1R4 1d ago

Well yeah kind of humanity, but because humans love capitalism and cheap workers. Many countries dont care about their people when they get sick, disabled or something that make them unable to work, thats not humanity.

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u/EstablishmentOk7859 1d ago

while i agree, this has nothing to do with what i said.

just because some don’t care, doesn’t mean all don’t. and most people aren’t trying to witness someone die in a public space.

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u/RepresentativeNew132 1d ago

I thknk you need to log off reddit for a little while and have real conversations with real people