If someone reaches out for help when they are experiencing depression, that is what it is... a call for help. The information you provided it too vague to come to an conclusions on how to assist your friend. Talking is a way to start; meaning your friend talking about what's bothering him -and the next step is to get him to offer solutions to his problems. There are many degrees and causes of depression. If you wish to help your friend, there is a lot of information on the internet. Most people won't go to a counselor, so the more understanding you have... the better. I will also add that alcohol is a huge depressant and so long as he is drinking, your efforts may seem futile. Your story is very common, depression is wide-spread. Check on your friend often... and does his family know? What's going on there?
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Yes I explained to him that the alcohol is a depressant, and being a recovering alcoholic, I'm very aware of the danger. I really don't know the magnitude of his cry for help. If it was just him in a bad mood while drunk, I don't want to alert the family and make a mountain over a mole hill. This isn't the first time someone alerted me to feeling suicidal while intoxicated. When I alerted her son, I encountered so much backlash, that it angered me for trying to help her. In this situation he said he was going to bed. So my plan was to message him in the morning, but I will feel terrible if he does something. Part of me is angry that he wanted to console in me, as selfish as that sounds, due to problems in my own life right now, I really don't need the burden of guilt if a friend kills himself, and I didn't act. This has my emotions out of wack at the moment.
My friend, if he is that serious, there would be very little you could do to prevent it. The only person you can control is yourself.