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/doggietv123 1d ago

Probably its the best outcome cant be in the public if your gonna jump off a bridge

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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/CTKM72 1d ago

That would definitely be criminalizing suicide, your case is not the same because apparently you had actual other criminal charges. In the case of someone who didn’t break any laws but was attempting to kill themselves being tackled and forced into a psychiatric ward is the definition of “criminalizing suicide”.

People should be able to kill themselves if that’s what they choose, it’s fucked up to force someone else to endure constant pain and misery because of a moral aversion to suicide.