While I was in Palomar College I received Suicide Counseling Training. This would have been around 1971

 There were two volunteer projects that I got involved with while at Palomar College starting in 1971 to 1973. The first was called "Operation Share" where I tutored children in the area on a volunteer basis for free. The 2nd thing I was involved with was being taught how to counsel people who are suicidal.

At the time I was choosing a profession to be a psychologist which I studied for for several years. But, I didn't ever become one simply because eventually when I was 25 my live in Girlfriend got pregnant and we got married so I could support my wife and son by the time he was born when I was 26 in 1974.

But, learning how to counsel people who are suicidal temporarily (hopefully) is a very good skill. 

What you need to know is some people who really want to kill themselves are just going to do it without any warning. So, people who are determined to kill themselves you have no hope at all of stopping because they are not going to tell you anything before they choose a way to be gone permanently.

Then you have people who wish they were dead but don't have the courage to kill themselves or don't want to experience the pain of death. These are the people who you can help if they will talk about what they are going through. Often if they can just talk to someone, anyone you can talk them out of what they are doing.

For example, two ladies in their 40s and 50s with children were very influential in my choosing not to end my life.

One of them was a clairvoyant like me who literally brought down the angels for me to see. This helped me because I realized that I didn't need to die because I could live with angels right here on earth and to a greater degree than you might imagine I have lived with angels ever since.

The other lady used logic alone to share with me how it would be counterproductive for every person in my life if I took my life. This also helped me to see that I would destroy up to 100 people's lives or more if I took my own life and I might set off chains of suicides among my friends and relatives. I had seen this happen by the way with people I knew who killed themselves between the late 1960s and the mid 1970s.

So, it's not just about you it's about all the other lives you will destroy completely by killing yourself like this.

Then there is another level which is young men who join the military to kill themselves honorable by dying in battle. Now, this has gone on continuously for thousands of years already. Often it is from a broken heart from the love of their life dying or marrying someone else. This is very very common and much more so than you might think among men and boys from about age 15 to 30.

So, what I need you to know is that not everyone will signal that they are going to kill themselves. People who actually succeed are going to say nothing at all to anyone. And in this case there is absolutely nothing you could have done for them after the fact if they talked to no one at all before they ended their lives.

I'm writing this so people don't have to carry guilt about friends or relatives who off themselves because if they don't tell you what's going on inside of them how are you supposed to know?