10 Lifesaving Heroes From Around The World
We tend to think of heroes as wearing capes and hurtling through the sky, but real heroes are all around us, wearing everyday clothes and working mundane jobs like the rest of us. We honor police, firefighters, and soldiers all the time in parades and holidays, but there are so many other heroes good Samaritans in the right place at the right time who reach inside themselves and act selflessly.
10 Chen Si
China
Unfortunately, China suffers from one of the highest suicide rates in the world. With gun ownership severely restricted, many distraught people choose to commit suicide by jumping. But those who decide to end their lives by leaping from the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge might just find themselves pulled back from the brink by a guardian angel. Chen Si is a family man of humble means who spends much of his time patrolling the length of the bridge, looking for desperate people. Over the 10 years he has served as the “suicide watch