[vmception]

I don't often find people able to articulate their views on the suicide topic, and also aren't comfortable talking about it.

The best thing I've heard though is that there is a large subset of suicides that are spur of the moment decisions. And so an option like a suicide prevention hotline is to serve as a distraction and circuit breaker to get the afflicted human onto something else. That also means there is no use case where you call the hotline on someone's behalf.