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/Tiny-heart-string 1d ago

Everyone was happy except the dude who wanted out of this existence

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u/pudgehooks2013 1d ago

Yeah, people always cheer for these videos, which I completely understand.

I don't think they understand that there is at least an equal chance that all this did was prolong and exacerbate this guys suffering.

However, in this particular case, clearly this guy didn't want to die. You don't stand on the edge of oblivion, with the intent to die, only to be distracted by random people and start arguing with them.

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u/Gorogoro415 1d ago

"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames."

Edit to add the source of the text: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4yufkg/one_of_the_most_powerful_descriptions_of_suicide/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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u/pudgehooks2013 1d ago

One persons perspective. Well written of course, its from DFW.

I can tell you for a fact that the opposite is also true.

Sometimes jumping from the flames brings you serenity.

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u/Gorogoro415 1d ago

Sorry, I think I misunderstood your original comment.I agree with you, I thought you were underestimating the guy's pain when saying "he didn't want to die".