Suicide: "Why don’t we let her?"

Edwin Leap on why physicians care about suicidal patients:

As for me, I’ll keep pushing the charcoal and talking to the counselors and sewing the wounds. And God help me, I’ll try not to act angry or annoyed. Because if my child ever reaches that place, and I can’t be there to fight for them, I want someone to ask, not’Why do we do it?’, but rather,’Why would you do it, my dear? Let me pull you back from the edge and we’ll talk a while. There are other ways to take away the pain.’