This is what I took away (with me) from the suicide link that DocJohn supplied in Depression....

(1.) That's what suicide is really about -- not having the ability to cope anymore with the amount of pain that you're feeling. You just can't deal with it anymore. You feel overwhelmed and hopeless. Lost. You are at the end of your rope and your coping resources have just run out. That leaves you with three choices: commit suicide, reduce your pain, or increase your coping resources.

(2.) Just because you feel the pain doesn't mean you have to act on it today. Take a day to consider that the pain you are feeling right now is going to be just a little less intense one week from today, and even less intense one month from today. For most people, they won't even remember the intensity of the pain and feelings they experienced while contemplating suicide a year from that very same date.

(3.) That's what I've tried to do here, help you understand that suicide is a temporary feeling of wanting to do something to stop all the pain, to stop the anguish, to stop the misery in your life. But these things -- pain, anguish, and misery -- they are all feelings. Relief from those feelings will come anyway, whether you choose to die or not. You don't really have a choice about that. You will feel better eventually, whether you want to or not. Because not even the kind of pain you're feeling right now is permanent (no matter how much it feels like it will never end). It will end.

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LINK: http://areason.org/