峡谷天使离开人间一生守护自杀圣地_BEC初级作文

峡谷天使离开人间一生守护自杀圣地

"My ambition has always been to just get them away from the edge, to buy them time, to give them the opportunity to reflect and give them the chance to realise that things might look better the next morning," he once confided."You just can't sit there and watch them," he added. "You've got to try and save them."

“我只是想把要自杀的人从悬崖上劝下来，让他们有时间也有机会再好好想想，说不定就能想通一切都会好起来的。”里奇曾这样吐露心声。“我就是没办法坐视人们轻生，”他补充道，“总要有人去试着挽回他们的心意。”

Mr Ritchie's daughter, Sue, said her father enjoyed his ocean view, but was equally determined to watch out for troubled souls. He once said an offer of help "was all that was needed to turn people around and he would say not to underestimate the power of a kind word and a smile," she told the Sydney Morning Herald.

里奇的女儿苏曾说过父亲非常喜欢海景，但更笃定要帮助那些轻生的灵魂。“父亲曾说简单的一句话就能够使人回心转意，永远不要低估善意语言和温暖微笑的力量。”在接受悉尼先驱晨报采访时，她回忆道。

He was "a great mixture of strength and compassion... an everyday person who did an extraordinary thing for many people that saved their lives, without any want of recognition," she added.