I think for me, I would want my therapist to say how sad he would be if I killed myself, and that he would miss me. We have a great deal of empathy between us, so I think if he said those things, I would feel them too, toward myself, and that might lead to a changed direction. I think he would also want me to just talk about my feelings about that and why, and that would be helpful too.

I agree the worst thing would be for someone to say, "I don't want to hear about that," or "don't say that." I would just do as they asked, and not talk about it, and feel worse probably because it would seem like this person must not care.