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From: simsong@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Simson Garfinkel)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: Suicide
Message-ID: <52@mit-amt.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 13:21:07 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 13:21:07 1985
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In article <393@cad.cs.cmu.edu>, mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu (Monica Cellio) writes:
> 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.
> 

This distinction makes a good deal of sense to me. It also explains why
something that is so incredibly easy to do (namely, killing oneself), is
so often botched by people who try to do it -- they didn't really want
to kill themselves in the first place, they just wanted attention.

So why do people say that it takes more courage to keep on living and
that killing onesself is the easy way out?