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“We have read many times, that you are the Civic Guards, responsible for the preservation of order, of public peace and security…a disarmed Guard. Disarmed indeed, in the sense that you are provided with no material arms, but you are armed with the far more valuable weapons of vigilance, diligence, and dutiful courage.”
Pope Pius XI
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I’d read Alvarez’s study of suicide, The Savage God. Got to the chapter where he discussed his own failed attempt.
Whatever else, I didn’t want to screw it up. Read what the medical experts had to say:
Most suicides will communicate their intentions, verbally or non verbally.
I reached for a cigarette, realised I wasn’t smoking any more.
Continued.
In America, they have QPR intervention: questioning, persuading, referring. I was reading about it in
