Also:

I'm 51 freaking years old. In the harshest Darwinian sense, shouldn't my suicidal friends have weeded themselves out before now?

And if you need help: please get it.

@mwlucas 2 and 0

I'm only 21 though...
I've only vaguely considered it, more as like a thought experiment

@mwlucas
oh, question time, fun!
1 - including self, 4
2 - 1 so far

extrapolating that rate out to 50-years-old, seems like would be about matching with your count by that point. doubt it's actually a linear progression, though. spikes around late-teens-to-early-20s and then late-30s-to-early-40s probably

>goes to look this up

@mwlucas Of the people I've considered friends over the years:
1: about 15?

2: 3 that I know for certain.

Some I've lost contact with, but hope it was because they found a better life offline than they had, and not the other option.

@mwlucas I only know one attempt. That is, if I can claim to know myself. Obviously not succeeded. It's been over 15yrs ago but I still require help.
In the process I've learned to know myself more to the extent that I'm slowly stopping medication and therapy should end somewhere this year.

@mwlucas AFAIK, 1 attempt, which was successful.

I'm 61.