ffm wrote:
Bryan Derksen wrote: | In hindsight it was | obviously an attention-getting mechanism, if you seriously intend to | kill yourself you don't bring it up with friends before doing it, but of | course one should never treat it as such.)
No, per http://www.suicide.org/suicide-myths.html, "People who commit suicide usually talk about it first. They are in pain and oftentimes reach out for help because they do not know what to do and have lost hope.", and "There are almost always warning signs."
Which is why one should treat it seriously; If they reach out and are ignored things get worse. I don't see the disagreement here.