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Mail, can I?
Yes, yes
Laura Robles?
Yes, thanks.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Good morning, Telephone Hope-Line. My name is Laura, I'm here to listen.
I know you're there.
Don't be afraid. I´m here to listen… Just take your time.
- I know it´s hard to trust someone you don´t know, but I´ll do everything I…
Hello
Hi, what´s your name?
Javier
Ok, Javier. How are you?
I can´t be that well if I dialed this number
What´s wrong?
I don´t know…I think…I think I want to harm myself.
What led you think that way?
What do you think?
I think you want to tell me.
No one wants to punish themselves without a motive
And which is the reason that has driven you to want to harm you?
There are a lot of reasons actually…
We have all the time in the world
I´ve hurt people
Want to tell me everything from the beginning?
I don´t remember when all this started. You know? Every time I try to remember… I can´t
I can´t remember the last time there was goodness in me.
That´s why I think my soul wants to punish me.
What´s the last good memory you have? It can be yours, a situation, a person…
the last thing that made you feel good.
I remember my sister.
What about her?
Her smile, she was always smiling.
What happened to her? Tell me about her.
She killed herself.
I try to find an explanation of why she did it, if she was so happy why did she take her own life?
I don´t even know how did that happen, anyone does.
You know? She lived in a flat, had a good job, people who loved her...
I remember her being happy. She had a perfect life in the eyes of others.
At first I thought someone broke into her apartment and killed her, but the forensic proved it wrong
I didn´t want to believe.
Do you still believe it wasn´t a suicide?
I decided to search for answers. You know what I found?
She had all the intention of doing it.
She had been calling this same Hope-Line constantly for the past few weeks.
How do you think I felt when you picked up and told me you wanted to help me?
Look, I can´t even imagine what you are going through and probably anything I say will make you feel better, but…
Then, why do you answer this type of calls?
I just try to help and listen to the people who call.
Yeah…listen…you are great at it.
Laura, can I ask you something? You don´t mind I call you Laura, don´t you? Ok. Laura...
of the people that have talked to you before the attempt of suicide,
how many have managed not to go through?
I think you have not called this number to talk about me, but with me.
Oh! I am talking to you, but I also want to talk about you.
So…answer me, how many people have you saved?
This conversation is not appropriate.
I believe I´m putting you through with another colleague, maybe he will be able to help.
Do you remember her name?
What do you mean?
My sister´s, do you remember my sister´s name?
Look, this game is over.
Telephone Hope-Line, my name is…
Claudia, Ainhoa, Carlos, Raúl… I´m sure you remember this names.
What do you want from me?
I want a clear and logic explanation.
I don´t know what you mean…
I want you to explanation what the *** did you tell my sister for her to cut her veins.
You are sick, leave me alone!
- Look, if you call again I swear I… - Hung up again and it will be the last thing you do in your life.
What…?
Yes, you heard me. Hung up and I swear I´ll make sure you never see the light again.
- Listen, I… - No, you listen to me...
Do you know how I feel? No, you don´t.
Do you know how helpless I feel? No, you don´t.
Do you know how did my sister felt the last minutes of her life?
No, you don´t.
And I don´t know either.
But I am going to make you the favor of feeling it.
What do you mean?
I mean your time is up, Laura.
You are going to feel what my sister felt the last minutes of her life.
I want to know what´s going in your head knowing that everything will be over in 5 minutes
Knowing that you will never see your family and friends again…
You won´t exist anymore.
You are going to face that what you fear the most:
Death.
Are you giving up so early? Are you going to cry? I´m disappointed…
I thought my sister suicided because she was weak, now I see that her weakness came from you.
Enough...
It´s funny that a person that dedicates her life to safe others from taking their life, is someone so weak and pathetic.
Tell me Laura, how many haven´t you saved? 8? 10?
ENOUGH!!
You want to know how I feel? I feel like ***.
I feel like this because every time the phone rings I can´t stop asking myself
if I will convince that person not from jumping or cut his veins...
...or to shoot his head
Because in the end we all know they have a straight way to death.
Why are those people that way?
Say it Laura. You know you have more in common with those people than you think.
Please...
SAY IT!!
BECAUSE THEY ARE WEAK!!
So that´s what you think they are, uh? Weak?
Do you think that when someone calls this line is because they are going to suicide, right?
I´m going to tell you something, Laura...
You are wrong.
Who wants to suicide does it and that´s it.
Those are the weak ones…
The people who called… My sister, who called you… she was strong, she was fighting.
She wanted to take her life away and came to you.
It´s obvious you pushed her to doing it because you thought she was like you:
Weak.
It´s not true.
Yes, it is.
No, it´s not!
If your sister cut her veins was because she wanted to.
It was me who talked to her for weeks to convince her not to.
She had the last word.
And you know what?
Thanks to me, your sister lived a few more weeks.
Don´t even think you have the right to say I´m weak. It requires a lot of strength and guts to do what I do.
The truth is that you are good in your job.
You always were.
You have power of conviction and know what to say to the other person at the other side of the phone.
That´s why I find surprising that you did not save her.
And it´s even more shocking that you are still there sitting down trying to save lives,
when yours...
is more than over.
You don´t have a clue of how my life is.
The envelope you received…
Open it.
My god...
I can´t stop asking myself why did you do it,
why didn´t you save her...
why did you let her be weak...
when you were the strong one.
This isn´t possible…
Laura, I´m really sorry.
I really am.
What´s all of this Javier?
The truth, little sis.
No...
You have to accept it, Laura. And come over here.
I´m fine. I am waiting for you.
What do I do now?
You have to go, let go…
Where?
To the other side…
THE OTHER SIDE �