 push the person away and tell the person you couldn't help even though you might have been able to help. These are some of the challenges. Another country that has changed the law is Guyana in South America. Guyana once had one of the world's highest rates of suicide. Supriya Singh Bowden is founder of the Guyana Foundation, which offers counselling to vulnerable people in the country. She says it's too early to tell whether decriminalisation will lead to more people coming forward for help.