I at least find the pain of impending loss much worse than actual loss. After an actual loss, I just move on. But I find an impending loss very oppressive. I’d check to see if the loss was impending, or had already occurred. If it has occurred, getting them to really accept that it has already occurred may help. If it hasn’t occurred yet, temporize, and tell them that you never know how things will turn out. Wouldn’t it be a shame to kill yourself when the Awful Thing ended up not happening? At least stick around to find out.
Along the lines of temporizing, try to convince them that they can always kill themselves tomorrow. Should work like a charm for the procrastinators around here. Surely there must be something they’d like to do before they go. You may as well do it first, before you kill yourself. Too busy killing yourself to go to a movie? Do they have any money they could give to charity? Movies they’d like to see? Places they’ve wanted to visit. Freaky sex they never got around to? Drugs they never tried? Some fancy restaurant they were always too cheap to go to? No point in dying with a dollar in your jeans.
I at least find the pain of impending loss much worse than actual loss. After an actual loss, I just move on. But I find an impending loss very oppressive. I’d check to see if the loss was impending, or had already occurred. If it has occurred, getting them to really accept that it has already occurred may help. If it hasn’t occurred yet, temporize, and tell them that you never know how things will turn out. Wouldn’t it be a shame to kill yourself when the Awful Thing ended up not happening? At least stick around to find out.
Along the lines of temporizing, try to convince them that they can always kill themselves tomorrow. Should work like a charm for the procrastinators around here. Surely there must be something they’d like to do before they go. You may as well do it first, before you kill yourself. Too busy killing yourself to go to a movie? Do they have any money they could give to charity? Movies they’d like to see? Places they’ve wanted to visit. Freaky sex they never got around to? Drugs they never tried? Some fancy restaurant they were always too cheap to go to? No point in dying with a dollar in your jeans.