Vince Hurley

So when you say it is a good idea to ask that person what's bothering them,

then that, I suppose, implies that whatever crisis is going through that person's head, it doesn't get redoubled by talking about it.

It gets alleviated.

It dissipates.

And what happened to this young woman in question you're speaking of?

I don't mean by that.

I just mean that fear of...

Her taking that step and you standing there to see this awful thing.

So when she asked her name...

Did you then put that argument to her, life was worthwhile, or were you just standing and waiting for her to say something to you?

It sounds like she's told you about her family back in Germany.

She's told you this, she's told you that.

And do you get a sense that...

whatever the kind of thing that had been expanding within her was now starting to relax and contract?

And when you reminded her she had family back home, who, of course, would have been devastated...

Did she start to retreat?

How was it when she stepped away and climbed back over the rail?

How did you feel watching that?

So we've talked about a situation where you might intervene where someone has performed some extremely dangerous criminal act.

A second case here where there's some poor woman who's considering taking her own life.