Originally Posted by
lillamy 
While I'm not advocating taking threats of suicide lightly, my experience with As is that they're usually to enamored with themselves to actually do anything but use the suicide card as a way to manipulate the people around them.
I know that sounds harsh, but that's my experience.
That's been my experience too.
But there can be exceptions. I've read several SR posts where spouses brought in law enforcement and that put a stop to that particular ploy.