Perfect Moments

Suicide Prevention Audio

When Brian started talking about when he was in school and what he did I was not really interested. There was nothing really wrong with his tone or anything I just did not care. After that he went on to talk about his experience about when he worked at the suicide prevention hotline. He talked about when he was going to kill himself and how he throwed up on the gun. I remember that because it was a little funny. After that he told the story about when he was talking to Amy, and how she ended up dying. His tone was like building up to say something in the end. It didn't throw me off but it didn't really make me that interested on the story he was telling. I feel that it did not make as much a difference; for me is more the content that makes me interested or not.

At first I did not agree with the no unwanted intervention policy but then the more I thought about it made more sense. If suicide hotlines are known to intervene when people don't want to, the nobody is going to call them. These hotlines are to talk to the people that feel they might kill themselves to try to convince them to do otherwise. But if they were to intervene, even though the victims don't want to, then no one is going to call the suicide prevention hotline, eliminating the chance for the victims to change their minds.

I guess the only connection I see is that some may say his tone made one feel more interested on what he had to say. But at the same time, that really did not make a huge difference for me. Of course if you talk with a super boring tone, people are going to get bored, but that an extreme. As long as you know how to actually talk without making people want to fall asleep, the interest the people have on your story depends mostly on the quality of your content.