Suicidal thoughts - Who has had them? How did you cope?

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It’s sad that nowadays it’s not a rare thing where people talk about ending their lives. To be completely honest, I’ve thought about doing it a few times myself but never expressed it to anyone. I also used to cut myself, not to end my life but as a way to deal with all the emotions that were bottled up. It was almost as if that the negative emotions flowed out of me while my blood did. But as you noticed I am referring to all that in the past tense. Recently, I’ve had days where I was depressed to the point where I did not even want to get out of bed. Instead of reverting to my cutting ways, I found other ways to cope. I go for walks, I bake, I paint and even cooking relieves my stress. For others, it’s not easy to get out of their heads and many go through with their plans of ending their lives. You may be wondering why I’m writing about this subject. Yesterday, my sister got a phone call from my nephew’s counselor. He expressed wanting to kill himself yesterday. When asked why, he said the stress of school and this one little girl picking on him makes him want to kill himself so he can have some peace. I told my sister that she needs to take my nephew for a walk and just let him talk it out. She refused. Said she is too emotionally unstable to deal with it. That she has her own problems to deal with before she could help him. When he got home today, he seemed his normal self so my sister said it was just probably something said in the moment. So my question is, do I let it go or do I take him out and get him to talk it out? That’s what I did when my daughter tried to cut herself with a pencil. For those that may have read my previous posts, you may remember that my daughter is not actually my daughter. She is my cousin but she is in my care now. Well, while she was in my mom’s care, there came a point where she tried to cut herself due to my mom having a conversation with someone she had met online. My mom was talking about sending another dirty video to another man while she was still in a relationship with my stepdad. I took her out for a bite to eat and then we went to a fishing spot we go to a lot. I had her talk it out and then we came up with other ways for her to cope. Thankfully for her, all she had to do was tell my mom why it upset her and then to write it in her journal. For alot of other people, they don’t have people that they feel they can talk to or have ways to cope so many end up killing themselves. Has anyone reading this ever thought of ending their lives or known someone that tried or succeeded? If so, how did you handle it? How did you cope?