I endorse most of this, though I’ll note that in cases of profound depression my emotional response to being invited to consider near-future events may well be to assert that no, actually, there’s nothing I actually want to do.
Also…
if someone has a genuine, premeditated and well-thought-out intention to end their life, you won’t find out about it until they’ve already done it.
When I started writing this, I found I had a lot more that I wanted to say than could have been squeezed into a moderate length comment, which is why it ends kind of abruptly. There are so many possible caveats and special cases to make it difficult to assemble all-purpose advice on the subject.
I endorse most of this, though I’ll note that in cases of profound depression my emotional response to being invited to consider near-future events may well be to assert that no, actually, there’s nothing I actually want to do.
Also…
Often, not even then.
When I started writing this, I found I had a lot more that I wanted to say than could have been squeezed into a moderate length comment, which is why it ends kind of abruptly. There are so many possible caveats and special cases to make it difficult to assemble all-purpose advice on the subject.