Get her a copy of Final Exit. On second thought, get a copy at the library and return it later. Seriously though, this is most likely a move to control and manipulate. Negative attention seeking behavior. I agree that it's unlikely to happen but there needs to be a safety net, such behavior should not be positively rewarded. Call parents and the authorities and hopefully she will not equate self worth with a relationship.

Tell her to shut up and get a life, then leave her

She's just trying to manipulate'em

what's your friend going to do? Be with this girl forever? Marry her? Have kids with her? She's mental unwell...he can't have a healthy relationship with someone who is sick.

Break up with her.

Tell him to tell her best friend first what he's going to do and what she has said. Then when he breaks up with her, he calls her best friend and doesn't leave the house till she gets there to take care of her bud.

sounds like my mother, finally i got fed up with her antics and said "F'k it. go ahead, kill yourself. just remember after you cut your wrists you will be to weak to stop me from putting a bandage on them and you will spend the rest of your life in an asylum in a straight jacket" i know, sounds mean but i have been giving her the money for her rent and utilities for the last seven years and then i find out she has been ripping me off. while i am barely surviving she was lying about the amounts owed and spending the difference on tropical fish. rent: she said $464.00 a month actual price? $414.00 electric: she said $250 a month actual price $56.00 gas: she said $200.00 a month actual price $32.00 Difference: $412.00 in the mean time i am eating mac and cheese twice a day and online with a $40.00 piece of crap computer with pentium 2 700mhz cpu/ 512MB memory and ancient used hard drives brought from a junk parts shop. i have to sets of clothes, a $20.00 coat from a thrift store and no medical insurance (couldn't afford the $60.00 a month price. o.k. i know, i;m bitter and rambling, the point is your friend is not responsible for this woman and he should not let her threats make him stay with someone who is wrong for him. sometimes you have to just walk away and let nature take it's course.

tell her how he feels then not let her out of his sight til either her parents or best friend picks her up and has the situation explained to them

Call her parents and suggest a therapist. She obviously has deeper issues than her bf breaking up with her.

This is a power trip you can't control this kind of behavior. Ask yourself what kind of relationship will I have with her if each time there's a problem a suicide threat is used to solve it in her favor?

Call her parents or 911. Take her threat seriously. This is NEVER a reason to stay with someone, but her suggestion indicates that she does (at the least) have control issues. Good luck and I hope things work out well for her.

I do believe this is what is commonly known as 'emotional blackmail'.

say goodbye and not look back. even if she does, that is her choice to make. noone has any bussiness expecting someone else to live if they do not want to. never... NEVER allow someone to take you emotionaly hostage. I dated a girl casualy... she finially realised that all the time when I was saying "we're just friends" that I actualy meant "we're just friends" she tried that. said I "stole her virtue" based on the fact that I had kissed her cheek. basicaly trying anything she could to hang on to me. that ruined our friendship.

Buy a new suit for the wake and funeral. That's the oldest line in the country for trying to get someone to stay in a relationship. If she doesn't kill herself, give her a shoulder to cry on. If she does, send flowers.

People can be emotionally unstable. It's not a good idea to get involved too deeply with them, especially in circumstances like these.

I work for a crisis hospital doing emergency suicide intervention. I would take this threat very seriously as I've seen people try. The #2 reason people attempt suicide is relationship problems. #1 is financial stress. I would call one of the free 24 hr a day help lines. Tell them the situation and they can advise you on local safe houses for people going through it. They can also get you phone numbers for local therapists and they will tell you to tell her parents. I strongly recommend that parents get involved. Many people commit suicide or attempt to in relationship based circumstance because they feel alone and unwanted. If you get parents involved, it takes the edge off the loneliness adn gets at least 2 other people involved. If she has any similar age siblings, they can be life savers as well. Get people involved, that's the best thing to do.

Did she say this in the heat of the moment? I remember once on the brink of breaking up with a bf that I said I wished I was dead to another friend. Within half an hour this was being told to my bf as a suicide threat....I meant I felt awful and wanted to be elsewhere but they all had it in their heads that I was going to kill myself! Make sure you have it right!! The worst reason to stay with someone is pity and your friend would only be staying because he doesn't want the guilt of her killing herself. Make sure her parents know about this - don't burden her best friend with it cause that is just passing the buck; her parents have a responsibility to look after her that her friends simply don't have. Make sure she is safe but he needs to follow through with the break up as soon as possible - don't let it fester and give her false hope.

He should run for his life and change his numbers.