If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation?

This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can. -LCDR Robert W. Copeland, USN 25 OCT 1944-

Parents: just when you think you’ve got them pegged, they turn around and show you they love you. -Capt. B.F. “Hawkeye” Pierce, “M*A*S*H”-

It never fails to amaze me. You’re alive, then you’re dead. No horns, no flashing lights, no fanfare. You’re just dead. -Maj. Margaret Houlihan, “M*A*S*H”-

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.

Remember, you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve. -Max Planck-

Picture yourself totally naked surrounded by people who speak a different language and want to pet you. That’s what it’s like to be a dog. -Cain Siwick-

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance — that principle is contempt prior to investigation. -Herbert Spencer-

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC. -Kurt Vonnegut-