Greenleaves, Take it from my experience. NEVER threaten suicide online. I was on an AOL chat room a long time ago and had some rough moments and threaten to kill myself in a chat room with an AOL Chat room host.... Obviously the chat host had a duty of reporting the incident and the next day... while I was chatting away in the same chat room... A police officer came to my house and knocked at my door. I was so scared that I had a hard time remembering what I've done to cause this. My father open the door and actually took the blame.. Not only I caused a police officer to come knocking at my door but a Social worker came to my dad's work to get him some therapy! LOL sounds funny but it's a hard fact.

As far as the law goes... I live in Florida... The law is called the Baker act law. If somebody threatens suicide or attempts a police officer, Psychatrists, therapists,etc. have rights to arrest you and to take you to a local hospital for forced threatment.. the amount of time is 47 hours. This includes threatening other peoples life or attempted. Too many baker acts and the local hospital might consider sending you to the state hospital where you get long term treatment.