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When that yearning comes. When you are battling the urge... Or when you've already resolved to submit to it... Consider a suicide pact. Not the kind we're used to hearing about.
You enter a contract or pact with yourself or with someone you consider a safety person. A promise, an obligation, to first attempt and follow the safety measures laid out in your contract before acting on your urges.
You must devise what the Emergency steps will be.
An example
Step 1: Tell someone you have made plans to take your life.
Step 2: Make Drs/Counsellor appt
Step 3: Lock away medications and give key to safe person
Step 4: Sing Favourite song at the top of your lungs
Step 5: Make lists of why you want to end your pain
Step 6: Make lists of what makes/used to make you happy
Step 7: Contact "safety person"
Step 8: Ask, Nay! DEMAND help.

It can be anything really that you think you can attempt to follow through on.
The idea is to buy time... And BY the time you have forced yourself to go through your Emergency protocols , hopefully, you will be out of immediate danger... Maybe not out of the woods... But at least not being dragged further into them!
There is to be no shame or guilt attached in not being able to fulfil the contract. It is purely a tool to add to your mental health belt. You won't need or use all your tools, all the time, but its essential to be prepared!