What do you say to someone that is on the verge of suicide?

@PhilDeep But sometimes you are the only one there and you have to get them to a stage of getting support.

@PhilDeep Would you be able to recognize they actually are at that stage? To tell apart a casual breakdown where a person needs to make a statement in a dramatic way but the next day they're okay again, act as if nothing happened etc. and the point where they are very likely to actually do it? I don't know. When is the point you make a decision to "call a shrink on them"?

@CrazyMusicLover That is not my decision. But if a person is sitting on a cliff top threatening to jump, I will act and to the best of my ability, do my most to stop their threats.

If I have the opportunity to get outside help in, of course, I would do that. But if nothing is immediately available, it is up to me as a human.