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What if you are in a situation where someone has taken a poison, slit their vains or used some method to commit suicide and there are no medical facilities readily available, what would you do? The following site gives valuable links:
Ref. https://www.psycom.net/depression.central.suicide.html

The following link gives good tips in certain situations:
https://uuhsc.utah.edu/pated/handouts/handout.cfm?id=2168

Suicide

I would try to remain calm and put the person in my car and at least attempt to take them to the nearest town, where hopefully there is a doctor. I would also call 911 or emergency services and hopefully we can get a chopper to the site. If the person died, at least I would have felt better that I tried.

Suicide History & Civil Business Politics

Honestly, this was one of my biggest fears this past summer. Hearing all these horror stories from the past summers of campers running away and fighting and such, I was terrified that one day I would wake up and find a suicidal camper.

I had prepared myself as much as one could possible prepare for a situation like that without ever having actually been in one. I'd even come up with speeches in my head about it.

My instict, if they had not already committed the act but were in a position of doing so, would be to talk to them. To encourage them. I would do it in a way that wouldn't seem threatning to them.

If something had already happened, I'd be rushing them to the hospital as quickly as possible. If they had cut themselves, I would do everything I could to try to stop the bleeding. I'm not quite sure what I would do if they took poison. I'd probably call 911 and find out what I could do to try to help.

Suicide

Only about half of suicidal patients asked if they have access to firearms

Despite national guidelines urging emergency department doctors to ask suicidal patients if they have access to firearms or other lethal implements, only about half actually do, according to a new study. Ref. Source 8w.