[Baypiggies] Suicide

[Aahz]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdhury at gmail.com>wrote:
>> 
>> http://www.samaritans.org/
>>
>> Do you think something like this would work in the US? They've saved the
>> lives of several people I know in the UK...
> 
> It works, eh?  That's great!  You should post that comment on my blog
> for any other people who are looking.  There must be groups in the
> US who are similar, although I don't know of any or whether they are
> successful.  I think that we in the FOSS world have to really look out
> for each other because the nature of our work can really wear us down
> over the long haul.

Are you saying that there's something particular to FOSS that makes
people more susceptible to suicide?
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