In all seriousness, it must be a horrible thing to want to end one's own life.
Yeah it sucks. About the only thing worse is feeling that way and having happy people all around you saying it is bad to feel that way without providing any help in not feeling that way.
The thing that gets me are the teenagers that have everything to look forward to. You know, the types who are in varsity sports, have good grades, etc...? Heck, even if they're failing out they still have plenty of room to turn around.
About the only time I see suicide as being understandable, is when somebody is suffering from a painful, untreatable, and terminal disease. The '76 year old man, diagnosed six months ago with untreatable, systematic bone cancer'. Rather than spend hundreds of thousands of dollars more, depriving his family of his estate*, suffering through all that pain and loss of quality of life, he goes with a hospice service that offers all the pain meds he needs(even if at toxic levels) for the last few months. Some, who even hospice can't help, might chose a more direct method.
As such, I'm not a good candidate for giving counseling to those who are terminally depressed. I just don't understand, thus can't propose solutions other than saying 'your life doesn't really suck', or proposing ways to make their life suck less.
*Yes, I know that many familes would rather have grandpa around for another year, but if he's in that much pain, is it really worth it?
