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How does the story about the girl on the roof mirror the story about the speaker calling the suicide hotline?
In both instances, a person is assumed to be suicidal when they are not, and authorities' attempts to help them end up doing more harm than good. In the suicide hotline story, the speaker is forced to go to the hospital even though she states that she is not suicidal. Her agency is taken away as the paramedic tells her that he will have to restrain her if she does not come willingly. Similarly, the girl on the roof is taken to the hospital and questioned by the police, even though her time on the roof was far from a suicide attempt. In both situations, the...
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