How about trying to improve the societal conditions that make people suicidal instead of putting this much effort into stopgap gimmicks that do nothing to improve their lives? The mental health industry as a whole is deeply misguided and/or outright malevolent depending on how generous one’s assessment of the motives involved in it is. Approaching this issue as a design problem from a tech perspective is symptomatic of how notions of suicide prevention are rooted in impersonal ideologies meant to keep the cogs of society feel as though they’re turning properly rather than addressing any actual issues or treating anyone as more than a malfunctioning component in a machine.
This is a softer version of Chinese factory suicide nets. Borderline dystopian stuff.
