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I can say from experience, it's hard to understand but not altogether impossible to explain. I'm very bipolar and when I got to college, I became a magnet for other mentally ill people and there were occasions where two of us were suicidal sitting in the same room and talking about why we bother and how hard it actually would be to go through with it, but we ended up realizing that each of us owed it to the other to survive and that it wouldn't really solve anything. But, with 14 years of maturity and life experience and the intensity of an onset of clinical depression or bipolar, your brain can be an atom bomb and rationalizing their way out of suicide was likely near impossible. And, with the other person willing to join them in the endeavour, it probably looked a lot more sensible. It's easy to tell yourself something like that is crazy, but when somebody else is telling you it isn't at the same time, it could be very hard. Not only that, but one of the aspects of a suicide pact is not to tell anybody else, so the feelings become insulated and just bounce off two suicidal people.
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