>>648478102>I always thought that failed suicide attempts were simply a manifestation of the innate human will to live.Nope. You'd be surprised how often legit suicide attempts accidentally fuck up in bizarre ways. People have survived self-induced shotgun blasts under the chin. People have survived self-induced bullets through the brain. People have survived self-drownings, self-immolation, drug overdoses, poisonings, suffocations, cuttings/bleedouts, insanely high free-falls... you name it. Honestly, the only things that are foolproof are some of the methods suggested on /b/, like with the CO2 or helium piped into a bag tied around your neck.
And when people accidentally survive real suicide attempts, it's fucking ugly. They end up disfigured, nearly braindead, in extreme pain, disabled, crippled, paralyzed, hospitalized indefinitely, institutionalized, or any combination of said results. And once they know you're serious, they will never let you out of their sight for one second for you to make another attempt. They will make damn fucking sure that you are forced to live out the rest of your life as a vegetable, even worse off than when you tried to end yourself.
Oh, and criminal charges/sentences. Trying to kill yourself counts as attempted murder in most places.