My first question would be: is the particular suicide hotline you’re looking at currently turning people away/making people wait a long time because of lack of volunteers? If so, every extra person could be very valuable.
If not, you might be replacing a less skilled volunteer. The question then becomes, how often would you save a life when they wouldn’t? That’s a hard question and it’s not easy for me to know the answer, but it’s probably not every night. Lots of people call a hotline with their mind already made up one way or the other.
My first question would be: is the particular suicide hotline you’re looking at currently turning people away/making people wait a long time because of lack of volunteers? If so, every extra person could be very valuable.
If not, you might be replacing a less skilled volunteer. The question then becomes, how often would you save a life when they wouldn’t? That’s a hard question and it’s not easy for me to know the answer, but it’s probably not every night. Lots of people call a hotline with their mind already made up one way or the other.