[Beggars]

Sorry to call it like I see it, but your comment is so wrong on every possible level.

There is nobody else to call when someone is telling the world they're going to commit suicide, where is your compassion? I don't even know this guy, never read his blog and I live in another country, but reading that post and the "love" one he posted with photos of his children, that hits me right in the chest. I feel compelled to try and do something.

Police aren't just there for tending to crimes, they are there to serve and protect the community and in this case, protect someone in the community from themselves who is clearly suffering from immense mental stress and needs help.

The way society deals with people who clearly are suffering from mental illness needs to change. There are so many people out there just like him working in tech and non-tech alike feeling the same, sadly many don't get heard or the help they need. Remember Aaron Swartz?

It's easy for people to say, "he should tell someone, he should tell his wife" when they've never experienced mental illness before. It's easy to be uncompassionate when you're lucky to be a normal functioning human being.

[Trundle]

Questioning a persons compassion because they hold a different opinion than you is low. There's no reason to believe they don't care. Their post doesn't say "Don't call the police, it's not worth the taxpayers dollar."

[hackuser]

There are many stories, I don't know how representative they are (certainly it's rare), of police shooting or otherwise assaulting mentally ill people they were called to help. I'm not agreeing with the GP, but I wouldn't jump to any conclusions either way.