I knew a close relative of mine had been suicidal for a while... But Ve had gotten professional help and I was preoccupied with my own problems. A few days ago I obtained knowledge that ve very, very, very nearly completed an effective way of suicide; this shocked me to my core and led me to setting up a number of steps to support ver heavily over the course of the next few month... Luckily this is merely an inconvenience and not a total disruption of plans; this way the update/decision to actually DO something is relatively easy made.