Get her help. Treat her like she has the flu because she is sick right now and she was crying out for help. She didn't fully want to die because she would have gone off somewhere told no one and died. I know this because my Dad did such right before Christmas this year and my Mom is currently in the hospital after she told her brother she wanted to die.

I say treat her like she has the flu because there are things she needs to do in order to get better. Depression is an illness that makes your brain see things in ways that are not based in reality. I unfortunately know that because I fought tooth and nail with serious depression and a few bouts of suicidal thoughts and attempts. So I also know the fighting you have to to beat those kind of thoughts. My mom is on her 5th or 6th time in the hospital for this. She likes pity/pills more than doing things to make her self more healthy mentally or physically. She has given up and has found some romantic side of letting her self rot while she thing we are all surrounding her whinging our hands nashing our teeth. It's making me hate her, I already cut contact with one of three siblings because of constant arguments over how to take care of her. I'm looking for a way to cut my bossy aunt out who is treating us like teens and demanding we alter our lives and daily schedules to be nurses for a lady who refuses to get out of her lazy-boy. She is only 58, she weights about 170 she isn't obese or even disabled.

My most important advice is take care of your self as well, people will attempt to force you into roles you may not be comfortable with and even not care about you or your well being at all because well the Mom ship is sinking better sacrifice the fleet to save it...is dumb as fuck. Yet it's what people do and expect.