Your friend called and said he wants to commit suicide.

I am sorry to hear that.Do you know if there is something bad happened to him or he has mental problems?If it is the first one,you should try your best to help him out.I think he will be much better as time goes by.When it comes to the second situation,you had better ask him to see a doctor and seek for some professional help.Sure,you can call police but it only useful in case of emergency.Happy posting!

Call any type of support lines such as police or here in Canada we have a place called cope that goes to people's homes who are at risk for issues such as this. I will also go and sit with the person until the helped arrived.

Being my friend, I would have known the exact problem my friend is facing. I will not call the police (in India, policemen visit to a house will create a lot of suspicion among the neighbours), I meet his parents and try to arrive at a solution to the problem my friend is facing. If it can be solved with my interference, I shall handle the case. Otherwise, I will bring the required persons together to solve the problem and get my friend out of woods.

I would definetly call the police and do my best to change his/her mind. There are days when that is the only solution but there are a lot of things out there to live for in my opinion.

Yeah...I will go with the police to make sure we can catch my friend alive....

I think I'd try to talk him out of it. Well, I'm no psychiatrist but I'll try my best. As I'm doing this, I'd try to use my cellphone call the authorities so that they can go in and get him. I won't try doing it alone though. It's much too risky. And yeah, just like one of the posters said, I would burn the bridges of friendship afterwards. There's no sense of keeping the friendship if he endangers himself and myself as well. He needs help. And I'm a friend, not a psychiatrist. =) Yeah, too harsh, but that's reality. If I were crazy, I'd go to psychiatrist, not to a friend.

This happened to me once before. A friend of mine called and said he wanted to kill himself. I knew he was mentally ill, but I was also able to recognize that he was just crying out for attention. We spoke for a while, and all went well. A lot of times when people speak out about wanting to do it, they are just trying to get attention. If someone really wanted to kill themselves that badly, they'd just do it, not wanting to be stopped.

I would her/his parents or someone living together with her. Because that would be more faster compare calling a police. Police could not do anything. It should be someone that is close to her.

I would keep him talking on one phone and call the police on the other phone, like a cell phone or something. I wouldn't want to let the friend go, they might go ahead and harm themselves. I would want to keep them occupied until help arrived.

i wudnt call d police..dat wud have more negative effect..i wud rather go upto him..ask him d precise reason for his action..talk to him..n make him feel dat der r ppl in dis world who care for wat he does..n who wont let him down.!!

I would tell her to go ahead and do it and stop wasting my time. Most likely she won't even do it because she is just seeking attention. Perhaps she will. Either way I am not going to waste my energy on someone so pathetic and abusive.