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Nine out of ten people who attempt suicide and survive will not go on to die by suicide at a later date. This has been well-established in the suicidology literature. A literature review summarized 90 studies that have followed over time people who have made suicide attempts that resulted in medical care. Approximately 7% (range: 5-11%) of attempters eventually died by suicide, approximately 23% reattempted nonfatally, and 70% had no further attempts.
Even studies that focused on medically serious attempts–such as people who jumped in front of a train–and studies that followed attempters for many decades found similarly low suicide completion rates. At least one study, published after the 90-study review, found a slightly higher completion rate. This was a 37-year follow-up of self-poisoners in Finland that found an eventual completion rate of 13%.
This relatively good long-term survival rate is consistent with the observation that suicidal crises are often short-lived, even if there may be underylying, more chronic risk factors present that give rise to these crises.
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 29 2019, @03:18PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOP6uMTYaM8 [youtube.com]
It is not a surprise that close encounter with death removes all romanticism of suicide and yearning for being a tragic figure from most wannabe tragic figures, but it doesn't work for the really depressed ones. OTOH, the really depressed ones rarely miss, make mistakes (after gaining a minimum of experience) or, for that matter, pause to gather courage. They are the one of the ten.
However, I believe that ten out of ten will learn that there is virtually no easy, painless death that will deliver them from suffering. As long as there is conscience, there is suffering, and conscience probably transgresses the time of death blackout by a wide margin. So you may as well breathe, it is at least marginally better, or else be prepared for patience until sufficient decomposition, desiccation, or cremation (fast, but ought to be hellish, excuse my pun). Ancient Egyptians basically blended and removed liquefied brains from skulls of the deceased, as part of the funeral preparations. Some historians believe that it was a sign that they didn't understand, or underestimated brain function in body, because otherwise their action would contradict the whole concept of posthumous life (you keep what you'd need in your life). My interpretation is that they very much did understand it, but where merciful to their passed ones.