sorry to add fuel to the music/non-music debate, but you guys are smart and most of you are kind, and i would really like to have your input on this.

i have a friend who talks suicide. she speaks very matter of factly about being unafraid of death and uninterested in life. she describes herself as "hopeless", as in lacking in hope for the future. having been suicidal myself once, i've given her the hard sell on antidepressants and therapy (virtually everything she tells me i can honestly respond "i felt that way too, and the drugs cured it"), but she's at the point now where feeling happy is such foreign concept to her that it seems like too much effort...

she's got a plan, and it's one that will be effective and easy to carry off. if she has the impulse tomorrow, she could be gone. though she says she's felt this way for years, i think her case is an emergency, and i'm very afraid for her.

so what can i do? what can i say? she's an adult, and i can't make her do anything she doesn't want to do. i don't have any authority to have her committed, and frankly i don't have a lot of faith in mental hospitals anyway. her lover knows how she feels, and is also at a loss.

have any of you had this experience? what would you say?