

New suicide prevention number could lead to rise in calls
Georgia Headlines December 27, 2019 Rockdale Citizen 0

Brian Anderson, an imposing man with a rich baritone voice, dwarfs his office chair at the Georgia Crisis and Access Line. He talks softly about the first time he tried to end his life. It was a collect call to his father from a pay phone in Hoboken, N.J., that saved him, he said. “I’d made up my mind that my life was over, and I wanted my father to pray for my soul. I told him, ‘Don’t pray for me, that person is finished — pray for my soul.’ I’d already suffered enough in this life; I didn’t want to suffer more in the afterlife.”
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