tell that emo kid to cheer up

What stopped me from killing myself is the fact that if you have nothing to lose, what is stopping you from just sticking around and seeing how things go? Or making some serious/drastic change you wouldnt have made otherwise.

If you dont care about your life, if youre feeling willing to throw your life away, whats stopping you from doing something abnormal or wild, like running away from home, becoming a criminal, faking your death, becoming a terrorist, starting an entirely new or risky career, becoming super gay, abandoning your fucked up situation entirely, or even something simple like going someplace different, living somewhere else （ ´_ゝ`）

Theres a lot of possibilities for change out there, and if you have nothing to lose, then why not stick around and do something different. If it fails, what does it matter anyway, if you dont value your life, then failure isnt that big of a deal, if youre already at a point where youre suicidal then youre kind of rock bottom anyway.

sticking around to see what happens next has kept me from killing myself a few times. This probably isnt very sensitive advice, though. ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌

you are by no means expected to carry out the job of a licensed suicide counsellor
just be clear and upfront that they need urgent medical (psychiatric or psychologic) care and be there for them, it's all you can really do, try to reason with them, but if they go through with anyways it's not like you could have done anything

I'm assuming this is an online friend you can't help in real life

tell him to go on a heist

i was told to stop being a pussy and man the fuck up but i don't think this advise will be of any use for you.

Sometimes I cope by posting on heyuri or [s4s]... but to be honest it doesn't help much and I don't make my funnest posts that way. When I start talking to people about suicide, it's usually because I feel like nobody gives a fuck about me, so you could try doing something for your friend to show you enjoy seeing him happy!