Talking about suicide should be taken seriously as it is often a plea for help. Most people who commit suicide have a history of depression or depressive features. They have taken a bleak view of the future. The death of a loved relative may precipitate suicide. In the schizophrenic population any or all of these are often present.
People often jump from bridges, throw themselves under a train or drown themselves.
An overdose of medications saved up by the patient is often a method to be aware of. When a loved-one is in hospital, be sure that staff issue day, evening, or weekend passes judiciously, especially to young patients with chronic relapsing illness. Immediately following discharge from hospital people are very vulnerable. Quite often they are not yet stable. The incidence of suicide is high among people with mental illness at this time.