Ellis Coupland and Kian Henderson, two 16-year-olds from Sunderland, North East England, saved a man from committing suicide late last month.
They were walking back from the cinema on the evening of May 31 heading to McDonald’s when they spotted a man in his mid-20’s sitting on the other side of the railings on Wearmouth Bridge in Sunderland at around 11:30 p.m.
“I saw a man in front of us, and he was looking at something. When I looked at what he was staring at, it was a man on the bridge, so I said to Ellis ‘There’s someone on the bridge,’” Henderson told Epoch Times.
“We went over and said ‘Excuse me are you alright?’ The man said ‘No, I’m sick of my life.’ I then said there’s better things you can do and this will not help,” Coupland said.
The teens both attend Whitburn Church of England Academy, and said the man—whose identity can not be revealed for his own protection—said that 10 other people walked past him and didn’t say or do anything prior to their arrival.
Coupland said it is because people “might not have wanted to say the wrong thing, and they may not have wanted to watch someone commit suicide, because that will stay with them forever.”
