[driftdiver]

Suicide is often "contagious" when an at risk person hears of another person it edges them closer to the decision.

Have you heard someone say:

• Life isn't worth living
• My family would be better off without me
• Next time I'll take enough pills to do the job right
• Take my (prized collection, valuables) - I don't need this stuff anymore
• I won't be around to deal with that
• You'll be sorry when I'm gone
• I won't be in your way much longer
• I just can't deal with everything -- life's too hard
• Nobody understands me -- nobody feels the way I do
• There's nothing I can do to make it better
• I'd be better off dead
• I feel like there is no way out

  Have you observed:

• Getting affairs in order (paying off debts, changing a will)
• Giving away articles of either personal or monetary value
• Signs of planning a suicide such as obtaining a weapon or writing a suicide note

[sueQ]

If you’re still available, could you expand a bit on how suicide is contagious? Please?

Thanks.

[AdmSmith]

Thanks, these are very important questions, and we should all have them in mind. Unfortunately, one of my friends was saying such things a few years ago, but we did not understand that it was something wrong until it was too late. Nowadays, I intervene at the first sign.