Quiver & Quill

At what point do you intervene when someone is asking for help online? Zadi Diaz noticed a suicide note written on Myspace and has documented the outreach efforts on her Flickr posts (screenshot above).

“Today I came across a teen who had written a suicide note on MySpace. At first, I thought it was a joke - just a teen looking for attention.
 But when I clicked on his profile and read some of his blog posts, I
 began to realize that it may be real after all.

It turned out it was real. And he was overdosing on pills. Rick Rey, a 
fellow videoblogger, called the school and the authorities handled it
 from there. Just a few moments ago I received an email from one of his
friends saying the kid was alive and holding on in the hospital.

…What should the protocol be in instances like these?
”

-Source Zadi Diaz

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