Now look, I do appreciate the effort. I'm on record ranting impotently about crisis helplines and I think your approach here has the potential to be more helpful because it's more personal. That said, I came to terms with the fact that I can't be happy for distinctly material reasons, and the fact that, for me, suicide is the last option long enough ago that vague, ultimately impersonal statements of encouragement just don't do it for me. Especially since what you're saying here -- "you are... so loved" is, in my case, just actually incorrect. Idk why I'm even wasting my time here, I don't have a larger point to make. Oh, no, here's one. In my comment on the OP, I actually suggested strategies to help out: strategies that have worked for a lot of people. Personally, I think that that kind of response is a lot more helpful. To me, a bunch of people saying "don't kill yourself," "your life is worth so much more," "a bunch of unspecified people love you and are there for you," can just feel empty and even a little apathetic. I think it's important that responses to people contemplating suicide should be practical and as personal as physically possible. And that takes a lot of work. It's much easier to just write out a bunch of platitudes. But I hope maybe you see what I'm talking about? And maybe it can inform your approach in the future?