You have 30 seconds to say something to stop someone who's about to jump off a cliff. What would you say?

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What would I say or do to stop someone jumping off a cliff?

Well I think reverse psychology might work, it will be very risky in a case like this but then he is about taking his life so what risk can be higher than that.

I'd say to him, "go on, jump and please be quick with it, so that I can jump too"

There is every certainty that he would look at me in a strange way, obviously confused. Then I would sit down on the floor and ask him the reason he wants to kill himself.

If I get lucky, he might move away from the edge of the cliff and if my luck shines bright that day, he might even come due beside me.

Then I'll patiently listen to his story and when he's done, I'll try to be the good Samaritan, I'll try my best to talk him out of it, to tell him there is more to life that what he's facing presently and hopefully it could both climb down from the cliff with no one getting hurts.