"brooklyn1" > wrote in message
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>
> "Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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>> brooklyn1 wrote:
> Someone says:
>> >>
>>>> Lemme tell you, when they're committed to suicide they don't talk
>>>> about it to anyone.
>>>
>>> That's not true.
>>
>> Perhaps there are no hard and fast rules on whether or not they talk
>> about it before doing it, either serious attempts or strangely
>> manipulative unsuccessful <?> attempts at it. There are different types
>> of conditions that can lead to suicide. Some people are so dispondent
>> that they truly want to die and may discuss it with people, and others
>> are sadly manipulative about it that they threaten and make lame attempts
>> for attention.
>>
>>
>> My brother in law's ex-wife (now late ex-wife) made numerous attempts on
>> her own life. She was a severe manic-depressive. Some of her attempts
>> were feeble, attention getting stunts and others were serious attempts.
>> As she got older, despite her many attempts at suicide, she apparently
>> started to level of and become a little more sane and dropped dead of
>> natural causes.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> My esSIL *did* try to commit suicide.
>>>
>>> If she made the attempt (especially that she failed) then she
>>> communicated her desire to commit suicide
>>
>> Sometimes, it is harder to kill yourself than some people think, and
>> sometimes it turns out to be easier. You can try to overdose yourself and
>> end up puking up all the medication. Then again, you might try to scare
>> people with a fake attempt and actually do yourself in.
>
> Every situation is different, that's why I responded to that silly blanket
> statement.
>

my old housekeepers kid tried to hang himself off a bridge and managed to
live the next 7 years as a quadriplegic. what a ****ing idiot.