If you don't believe in your own story, don't expect anyone else to. This confidence can only come from experience. He expressed his suicidal thoughts so vividly, that I found his instability alarming, much as people must have felt when Hemingway took his own life. They Carried speaks of story, too. That's what stories are for.
Stories are for joining the past to the future.
I encourage you all to read, if not write, stories. Make spirits in the head. About the author Christopher Meeks writes for and teaches creative writing at CalArts , and he also teaches at Santa Monica College and UCLA Extension. He has published four nonfiction children's books and written many short stories. His stories have been published most recently in The Santa Barbara Review, The Southern California Anthology, Rosebud, and Writers' Forum.