Luis Suarez talks man out of suicide bid during 20-hour rescue attempt Former Liverpool and Barcelona striker Luis Suarez has helped talk a man out of a suicide attempt, according to reports from Uruguay.
Suarez is said to have intervened, with a news clip showing him pleading with the man to come down, before working with a specialist group who had arrived at the scene.
The 49-year-old man is said to have climbed up the tree with a rope and vowed to end his life unless his 53-year-old partner arrived at the scene.
Suarez, who now plays alongside ex-Barca team-mate Lionel Messi at Inter Miami, had been enjoying a break in his home country and was walking along a beach with his wife Sofia Balbi in the Solymar region.
What we did was, during that time of containment, try to talk in an empathetic and close way so that it wouldn't be so long, even though this man has been there fighting for his life since yesterday.
