a serious inquiry:

[moominmolly]

How do you help someone feel like life is worth living when they've basically just given up and decided to wait to die?

You'd think I'd be good at solving this one, but I'm not.

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[dpolicar]

So, this feels like a copout, but I can't come up with a better answer: I'd say step one is try to understand how they came to that decision.

Step two depends a lot on the results of step one.

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Yes, this. (As well as some of the below.)

With my mom, I just used guilt. Hey, she'd been using it on me for years, so it was about time I gave back! It eventually worked, but it took about seven or eight years.

[rednikki.livejournal.com]

Note: I am NOT recommending this as an advisable tactic for ANYONE else.

And I'm so, so sorry you have to go through this.