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From: mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: Suicide
Message-ID: <393@cad.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 19:44:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 19:44:12 1985
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I may be totally wrong on this, but I get the impression that there are two
types of suicide attempters: those who've thought it out (and developed
reasons that are in their minds rational) who almost never fail, and the
majority, who haven't thought it out much and are trying more to get
attention (I'm not trying to speak in a derogatory way here) and who don't
intend to actually kill themselves.

If this classification is at all accurate, probably the vast majority of
teenagers who attempt suicide fit into the latter class.

To answer the question, I think it takes a lot of courage to actually decide
that things aren't going to improve and they're unbearable now.  There is
less courage involved in the latter class, as the person (at least
subconsciously, and often consciously) doesn't intend to die. 

Comments?

							-Dragon
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