Serious question: is someone who attempts suicide in the same group as someone who successfully commits suicide?<p>For instance, far more men commit suicide. But far more women attempt suicide:<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide</a><p>I'm sure there are other differences. To me, the questions are:<p>1. Why do people fail at suicide attempts?<p>2. Will information that dissuades a failed suicide attempt dissuade someone from making a successful suicide attempt?
"...in the past few years, scores of them have come together on social media and in other forums to demand a bigger voice in prevention efforts."<p>Wha-?<p>I'm by no means a heartless person. However, I truly believe if you don't want to live any more, that it's your right and your responsibility.<p>I'm not in your head. I don't know what you're thinking. Most of the time, I won't even know that you're depressed. Many people mask it very well. Why is it my fault that you decided to kill yourself?
This is stupid. And I can't believe it doesn't sound stupid to those who are the most likely to attempt suicide seriously.<p>Why doesn't anyone talk about "misery prevention" ?
I've contemplated suicide off-and-on since age 6. It's just a working part of my language. No successful attempts, or failed attempts, or whatever grammar is being built here.<p>It might partly be influenced by a Tourette's like underlying structure, which would here make it more publicly, or in terms of a biological profile, a symptom. Usually all we see are symptoms in the narration of science.