brooklyn1 wrote:

>>> 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.

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.
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>
>
>> 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.