Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
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I believe in suicide
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LittleWing sometime in July 2007 wrote:
Unfortunately, it's so elementary, and the big time investors behind the drive in the stock market aren't so stupid. This isn't the false economy of 2000.
Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
The last company I worked for ran a national hotline (and subsequently lost the contract). There's no way the government is shutting down 1-800-SUICIDE. The company running it probably lost the contract to another company and this is backlash.
We rambled on and on about how the CDC was destroying everything we worked for, and how the new company was corrupt and only got the contract through friends in Homeland Security. We predicted the hotline would tank within a month.
That was a year ago. Call 1-800-CDC-INFO right now. They're fine. No one dialing that number would ever know the difference.
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Joined: Mon Apr 04, 2005 2:18 am Posts: 3920 Location: Philadelphia
Al wrote:
Even if it doesn't get shut down, the part about it not being confidential anymore is a bit upsetting.
That is a bit upsetting. Anymore, it seems that privacy and confidentiality are a thing of the past.
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geg will feel lonely if this happens.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 7:19 pm Posts: 39068 Location: Chapel Hill, NC, USA Gender: Male
ranting in e-minor wrote:
Al wrote:
Even if it doesn't get shut down, the part about it not being confidential anymore is a bit upsetting.
That is a bit upsetting. Anymore, it seems that privacy and confidentiality are a thing of the past.
"has decided to create their own government run system where they would have direct access to confidential data on individuals in crisis."
That's pretty vague. They probably just want to compile a database. I highly doubt the government wants to link names to phone calls. Even HHS knows that this would kill the hotline and result in a jump in deaths.
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