Yeah - funny how they have "People with guns to guard the perimeter..."  UMMMMMM, ya mean POLICE? Geez  Here's the thing about people who threaten suicide -- the ones who usually go through with it haven't given any warnings in advance at all. They are often quiet, appear balanced, seem to go up and down but handle it. Then one day, they wander into the forest and jump off a cliff, or they borrow someone's gun and go into a closet and pull the trigger. The ones who talk about it (first hand experience... ) rarely go through with it. They are passive aggressively seeking attention. Or as the shrinks call it -- AGM Attention Getting Mechanisms. With my neighbor it got so I'd say, "Oh, you're gonna kill yourself? Ok. Well, can I have that laptop you just bought? Mine's getting kinda old." or "Dibs on your car!" or "Look, do it outside of town so it's not too messy. I don't wanna clean up your guts and all that crap... you DO know you shit your pants when you kill yourself, right?" After a few years of this he just stopped threatening it. He did die young-ish. But he just didn't take care of his body and it gave out one day.