I've known several people who've taken that step, for one reason or another. In my experience, people who decry suicide are people who have never been that hopeless, that despairing, that utterly lost and I pray to God they never are. You can't even begin to conceive what that's like, and with luck you never will.

I've been there, myself. I didn't do anything about it, obviously, but it always irritates me when people just dismiss it out of hand.