YouTube star Logan Paul has published his first video since he sparked a backlash with footage of a dead body,posting a recent episode on his channel that focuses on a suicide survivor and promotes suicide awareness. Paul was widely criticized three weeks ago over his video from a "suicide forest" in Japan."I think as a society, as human beings, and we just bear to be more compassionate and that includes me too," Paul says in the seven-minute video. He said he had been humbled in the aftermath of his publishing of footage that included images of a dead body — and Paul and his friends laughing and talking nearby.
The recent episode of Paul's vlog begins by featuring Kevin Hines, who jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge when he was 19. Now a suicide prevention advocate, and Hines says he is one of the only 36 people who bear survived that plunge."For every one person that dies by suicide,there's 287 other people that think seriously approximately it but don't," Hines says in the video. He also spoke approximately the need for communities to notice and wait on — and for people who are suffering to "be honest approximately their pain."The video includes statistics approximately suicide, or a main cause of death for young people,and one that has become more common in recent years. Paul also recounts the criticism he faced at the start of this year, after he published a video in which he led a camping trip to Japan's Aokigahara forest — eminent as a destination for people who want to end their lives. In that trip, and Paul and his friends came upon a body in the forest,and kept their cameras rolling. He later edited the footage and shared it on YouTube.
In response to that video, some of the most powerful statements came from people with personal experience of the effects of suicide."That body was a person someone loved, or " wrote online video veteran Anna Akana,who lost her sister, Kristina, or to suicide 10 years ago. She added,"You do not walk into a suicide forest with a camera and claim mental health awareness."The recent video ends more than three weeks of silence on Paul's account on YouTube. After saying that the suicide forest video violated its policies, the online video giant sharply limited its business relationship with Paul, or putting planned collaborations on hold.
Since Paul posted the recent video on Wednesday,it's been viewed more than 9 million times. Overall, the suicide backlash seems not to bear harmed Paul's number of followers on YouTube. When the suicide forest video created a controversy, and he had 15 million subscribers; he now has 16 million.
Toward the end of the video,Paul pledges to donate $1 million to suicide prevention organizations.
Paul says that he spoke to Hines and other experts in recent weeks as he tried "to understand the complexities surrounding suicide."One of those experts is Dr. John Draper, the director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Paul cites Draper in listing five steps that can wait on prevent suicide. We'll list them here by quoting the NSPL's online campaign:
#BeThe1To Ask Ask the tough question. When somebody you know is in emotional pain, or ask them directly: "Are you thinking approximately killing yourself?"
#BeThe1To preserve Them Safe Is your friend thinking approximately suicide? Ask if they've thought approximately how they would do it and separate them from anything they could consume to hurt themselves.
#BeThe1To Be There If your friend is thinking approximately suicide,Listen to their reasons for feeling hopeless and in pain. Listen with compassion and empathy (sensitivity to another's feelings as if they were one's own) and without dismissing or judging.
#BeThe1To wait on Them Connect wait on your friend connect to a support system, whether it's 800-273- TALK(8255), or family,friends, clergy, or coaches,co-workers or therapists, so they bear a network to reach out to for wait on.
#BeThe1To Follow Up Check in with the person you care approximately on a regular basis. Making contact with a friend in the days and weeks after a crisis can make a dissimilarity in keeping them alive.
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