Taboo subjects fair game for suicide hotline

Taboo topics such as gay love and sexual relationships outside marriage have been set as questions at a two-day recruitment interview for suicide prevention hotline trainees at Huilongguan Hospital this week.

Huilongguan Hospital, a key medical institution specializing in mental health in China, was recruiting 20 hotline trainee consultants on Tuesday and Wednesday.

"The questions are chosen because they are common topics for our hotline," Wang Cuiling, tutor of the suicide prevention hotline operators at Huilongguan Hospital, told METRO Thursday.