Victor Frankl, was a man and physiologist who survived the concentration camps and who wrote Man's Search for Meaning, said that in the concentration camp the prisoners weren't allowed to stop a suicide attempt of a fellow prisoners so the person's friends would have to try to talk him/her out of it before it was too late.
In talking about these conversations he said "...the typical argument---they had nothing more to expect from life....it was the question of getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them"
"This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a meaning to his existence had a bearing on creative work as much as it does on human love. When the impossibility of replacing a person is realized, it allows the responsibility which a man has for his existence and its continuance to appear in all it's magnitude. A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how'." (p. 101 Mans Search for Meaning)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl
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