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With respect to the button in the nitrogen chamber, I doubt anyone experiences regret for pushing in their last few moments. That seems like more of a literary device. I think "rel…

It's not reasonable to expect police officers to excel at everything. Maybe this is better. That said, I recently had the opportunity to watch (at length) a team of officers deal w…

If you think you should call 988 for yourself, you probably should. Consider the results of a false positive versus a false negative. I think the people on those lines are happy en…

Look, if your two options are get drunk or kill yourself right now, in my opinion, do the former. This worked out for me--YMMV. Also, put your engineer hat on. You _absolutely_ do …

You can't save someone if you're drowning yourself. I wasn't really thinking of partners here. I guess I was blessed in that my partners at the worst moments didn't really care tha…

For those who might ever contemplate this, maybe you'd like to hear a bit from me. I've been both depressed life-long and have probably spent more time in such contemplation than v…