my friend, who seems normal and happy in general, is going to prison and has to serve 4 years. he was on the phone with me and said he wanted to kill himself and i told him not to. i am scared he eventually will before he is sent to prison. is this normal?

also, i am disgusted by his crime so i do not even want to be friends with him anymore. now i feel things are awkward between us because of this whole prison scandal. i am scared that if i end our friendship, he will kill himself.

his crime was the attempted rape of a minor, but the minor was willing..he was set up by an online detective.

the online detective was supposed to be 14 years old and my friend is in his 20s. He is a good and loyal friend, but what he did is really ****** up, and I cannot seem to put it behind us. I guess my friend was online to meet girls. There was really no underage girl because an online detective was impersonating one. He asked her to meet in person, thinking it was the 14 year old girl, and the online detective agreed. He then got arrested.