Added: Oct 11, 2008
From: OfficialPostSecret
Duration: 2:30
As 1-800-SUICIDE marks its tenth anniversary this year, the hotline needs your help.It was founded in 1998 by Reese Butler in memory of his wife, Kristin who had committed suicide.The Kristin Brooks Hope Center has helped almost three million callers connect to help and hope. As they enter their second decade of service to the public, continued support is needed to ensure that the confidentiality of every caller is protected.Because they are totally privately funded, they need to prove to the government that they are capable of supporting 1-800-SUICIDE.The money you donate will not only be used to pay the phone bill that connects about 50,000 callers each month to the Hopeline Network, but will also be used to pay for training of online crisis counselors who will provide the same support via online counseling. This is where the young people of today reach out for help.The success of 1-800-SUICIDE is based on individuals in crisis knowing that any personal identifiable information is kept strictly confidential.The Hope Center's volunteer staff and Board remain committed to preserving confidential suicide prevention programs. Your action today assures their sustainability!The Kristin Brooks Hope Center and its national 1-800-SUICIDE hotline is a great asset to our society - one of those private-sector initiatives called a "point of light."With your help and support together we can help the Hopeline achieve success in liberating 1-800-SUICIDE from government control permanently.
Channel: Nonprofit
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Rating: 4.75 (104 ratings) Views: 157620' favoriteCount='99 Comments: 109
playaspec Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - It's not a way out. Don't let it build. Seriously, get help. You have no idea how much suicide hurts those around you. Better to tough it out. Life is what you make it.
Wafelwaffel Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - Do i have a phone line like this? No, stfu America is retarded, maybe cool but retarded.
LXkoru Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - Several of the comments on this video bother me. This hotline has saved so many lives, yet all people care to do is hide behind their computer screens and insult it simply because they can do so anonymously.Just because you don't need someone to listen doesn't mean that no one else does.
ACTORnSCREENWRITER Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - Which nation is 1st 2nd and 3rd, and what's the highest western nation?
klgard1963 Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - i callled this line the last 3 days for 10 times and they placed me on hold....i went ahead and tried to kill myself ...this was my 6th attempt...i woke up again this morning
ADLCH Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - 1 800-CHINGA-TU-MADRE-PUTO
jjxrawr Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - i hope youre okay;]
DarkAngelNCharmed Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - you should try calling again and wait till someone answers. i hope your okay.
xGothicGirl1x Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - The government sends the police...? O_O <-< That's messed.
shaolinloser Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - who fuckin cares what matters, is these poor souls think there is no way out other than offing themselves. As a survivor of an attempted suicide I wish this hotline was around sooner. 1,000,000 people commit suicide per year pretty fucked up don't ya think?
SexSandwich Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - It's a fact that over 9,000 people a week have been killing themselves in many, many interesting ways. There must be something that can done to save this resource. Please take a minute to do something.
equater8me Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - ur choice is your choice, cause ppl that say dont do it, but they r in the same situation, if u acctualy would call this, it means you want help, and dont fully waana comit suicide, i plan to this year, but i dont go off asking for help...
nspljd Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - ugh
PurpleShampooMohaw Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - WHAT IS THIS SONG?!
whysoblind Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - does anyone know how i can volunteer?
NoMcCain Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - shoot me please
JPPT1974 Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - I hate it that the line will be closing and it would be a crisis if it closed. Praying that it won't close. As I know I nearly committed suicide. As it wasn't worth killing myself. Life is important and short!
Otakudeservetodie Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - Eeeuhm no. These kind of services should be destroyed as it doesn't even adress the problem. These services are a lie,build to tell fairytales how magical life really is. No..Goodbye, you will not be missed.
hannaremnant Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - wow. how do you just dismiss someone's desperation? maybe you have no sympathy with someone who would attempt suicide. maybe the world would be a better place if people just killed themselves more often, is that it?
Otakudeservetodie Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - No, what i meant is people who are suicidal will NEVER really get along with the other side. A better example is a forum, people with same suicidal tendencies can relate to eachother because they are in "that place", where suicide hotline volunteers are mostly trained answering machines that keep saying :" call 911 blablabla, it's not the answer blablabla". You can compare this to bridge patrols, first time you might stop em and the next time they will remember your hollow words and "jump". Out
hannaremnant Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - WHAT! did I just hear you right? I want to talk to you.I know myself. I am as sinful as the worst sinner, as it says in the Bible. I am unworthy of being saved from my sins. I'm just watching everything and everyone fall around me and that I face judgement of what I do every day. While I can see the light, I still walk in the darkness.I am even worser than an average sinner, because while I know what the truth is, I am still so evil. What is your story?
XXXskater09 Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - :'(
equater8me Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - idk if i still will, and i am an athiest... ive asked god for help too many times for help, and ive looked for any responce, but there is nothing, i gave up. but now, i am out of... mental hospital, and im better now, i tried to leave earth 3 times in a row, but i didnt do it the right way i guess... but thats the past, im happier now
hannaremnant Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - Life is temporary, a blink in an eternity. Don't go looking around your situation, even yourself, He came for you and carried YOUR punishment. You don't think that all your suffering comes from being separated from God?? God created man in His perfect image, so that when Adam and Eve sinned, they disobeyed God and died. Spiritually I mean. When God said they would die, he meant they were separated from his holy presence, but he would restore it, read Gen 3:15. Amen. Say Amen.
playaspec Says:
Oct 11, 2008 - Omfg, only an complete IDIOT would say that without checking the FACTS. America is 30th in the world in suicide rates. Your country is 39th. A difference of only 3.6 people per 100K. Fucking moron.