"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 5 Sep 2009 12:43:04 -0400, "Ed Pawlowski" >
> wrote:
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>>I couldn't do it to myself under any circumstance. Besides, I'm chicken;
>>what if it did not work and I had to live with myself after, possibly
>>suffering with greater pain from the injury?
>
> Lemme tell you, when they're committed to suicide they don't talk
> about it to anyone.

That's not true. My ex sil threatened suicide constantly and made many
attempts (overdosing was her MO), at least a dozen times I visited her in
the hospital, I'm sure there were many more times I don't know about.
Eventually she succeeded. She wasn't quite forty years old, she left two
young teens and an abusive husband... she believed with all her heart she
was trapped, but only she believed she was ball and chained. She was
offered a great deal of help by many people, she had many ways out, she
chose the coward's way.



> My esSIL *did* try to commit suicide.

If she made the attempt (especially that she failed) then she communicated
her desire to commit suicide

She has a magnetic personality,
> so people call her all the time and visit too. She was unavailable by
> phone or door for 24+ hours so someone finally got the police to break
> the door down. She had shot the dog, taken a bottle of sleeping
> pills, drank a bottle of booze and slit her wrists.
>
> She called me from Bellevue in shackles, with an armed guard outside
> her door, because shooting a gun (especially inside an apartment) is
> illegal - as is committing suicide... live through it and you're in
> big trouble with the law. Well, she did live and she's glad she did.
> She finally found a Dr. who could tell her about her depression, so
> she knows now how not to get that depressed anymore. We're glad we
> didn't lose her. I think she heard from too many people who love her
> saying how upset they were at the very thought of losing her that
> she's making sure she never sinks into a deep of a depression again.
>
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