If that was the case, wouldn't that one friend be able to tell that something was wrong with that one friend? Or better yet, why wasn't that one friend there for the other when they needed it most? It seems that this one friend is the one being selfish because instead of thinking about what the friend must of been going through, they only thought about "now who am I suppose to talk to when I have a problem?" Seems to me like this "friend" wasn't much of a friend after all.

Sometimes even when we receive help,the pain doesn't go away. I have heard of stories where someone was sexually abused as a child and later became involved with drugs and alcohol, then received help, was clean for eight years and then got right back into drugs and in and out of psychiatric care and finally decided they had had enough. You cannot really judge a person's act as selfish or not unless you understand what the person is suffering from. Or say they are unwise because they made attempts. Suicide is a mental illness, it is an illness that we cannot visually see, or catch through an x-ray or ultrasound. We do not always notice a person is suffering until they have made an attempt or if they are no longer with us.