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Helpline priest falls asleep during suicide call for help
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| woscar |
| quote: | A suicidal man connected to a Samaritans-style helpline in Sweden was left pondering his options when the priest at the other end fell asleep and started snoring down the line.
The suicidal man called emergency services at around 2am on Friday, saying he felt "psychologically unstable". He was forwarded to the duty Church of Sweden pastor. About five minutes into the call, the troubled 44-year-old man had the feeling that he was talking to himself.
"I thought maybe he was taking notes, so I asked: 'Are you taking notes?'" the man told the Barometern local daily.
"I could hear his heavy breathing before he woke up," he said.
But, according to the man, the pastor's alertness did not last for long. After another frustrating few minutes with no response from the priest, the man rang off.
Luckily, the clergyman's response to his woes left the troubled man angry rather than depressed, and he abandoned thoughts of suicide.
This week he told the Kalmar newspaper: "It's not acceptable for a priest to fall asleep in the middle of a call; this should not happen when you call up in search of help. I felt bad and wanted to kill myself, but I pulled myself together and made the call. I am very disappointed."
According to Monica Eckerdal Kjellstroem, responsible for Church of Sweden duty pastors, it is not the first time this has happened.
"This sort of thing should really not occur, but it does sometimes happen that people call and report that the pastors have fallen asleep," she told The Local.se.
She promised to fire anyone in future who could not stay awake long enough to help callers. |
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Was probably up all night ing choir boys. |
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| Meat187 |
| Can't be blamed, how is he expected to listen to boring, whiny drivel all day? :tongue3 |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Hey man, night shift sucks.
Oh yeah, but this is still a failure of religion to assuage the human condition - obviously a blaring shortcoming in the teachings of Christ and all that. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
Can't be blamed, how is he expected to listen to boring, whiny drivel all day? :tongue3 |
Well you hang out on TA for free, don't you? Yeah. |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Well you hang out on TA for free, don't you? Yeah. |
Huh, what? Sorry, I must've napped away for a minute. |
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| denys envy |
| I dunno what the is the big deal, it obviously worked - the man didn't kill himself. I say a JOB WELL DONE for that priest :) |
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| david.michael |
| quote: | Originally posted by denys envy
I dunno what the is the big deal, it obviously worked - the man didn't kill himself. I say a JOB WELL DONE for that priest :) |
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Maybe the guy's just a genius. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| He was using reverse slychology on the guy. |
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| Orbital32 |
When i was in the Army, we had a senior sergeant kill himself unexpectedly. he went out of his way to make sure nobody thought of anything, even to call people to remind the of things they had to do the next day. He killed himself that night.
afterwards, we had to go to a suicide prevention class conducted by a ex-ranger protestant chaplain.
His speech started off with:
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Don't try and commit suicide. How ing stupid can you be to TRY and commit suicide? Really, WTF is a failed suicide attempt? You know you are a failure when you screw up killing yourself. Better not come to me with your whining. I guess i have to pretend to care, but i'll just keep thinking, "what a pansy." |
He was cussing alot.
Afterwards, he told us a story:
| quote: | Back when i was in the Ranger Battalion, there was this one guy who that said he wanted to kill himself and was going to jump out the window.
So he did.
The dumb jumped out of the first-story window! Nothing happened of course. So we started cheering "SECOND FLOOR SECOND FLOOR" He jumped out, but nothing happened.
We started yelling, "THIRD FLOOR THIRD FLOOR!!!" So the guy starts walking to the third floor. It was about that time the bitch ass Military Police stopped him and took him away.
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He cussed. Alot. We weren't sure if we were to laugh or what. We were confused. In retrospec, that is the funniest thing ever! |
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| idoru |
| quote: | Originally posted by denys envy
I dunno what the is the big deal, it obviously worked - the man didn't kill himself. I say a JOB WELL DONE for that priest :) |
My thoughts exactly. |
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