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Originally posted by Leah
It's the ones that do this that never actually go ahead with it. Attention seekers they are called. Calling Bluff. 
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But for those cops, that woman was going to be a human version of Humpty-Dumpty.
That's NOT a bluff.
I do this stuff for a living.
Even without taking the step of carrying through with an attempt, a lot of people who 'just talk' about suicide are very serious. yeah, there ARE chain jerkers out there. I see them. I talk to them. They know I know they're bluffing for three hots and a cot. But even some of these folks up the ante.
A lot of people who make 'cry for help' or 'cry for attention' attempts end up dead.
Wife of a state policeman in a state that shall remain nameless had made several manipulative suicide attempts. She was very practiced. She set the scene, left her suicide note, and timed her overdose such that he would be able to find and rescue her when he arrived home at 6. He was very punctual.
Just one little hitch ... when he arrived home at 6AM after pulling an unexpected mandated double shift she'd been dead for at least 10 hours. (I know the psychologist for that department. This is a true story)
I found the story about the online suicide group very distressing, and I do hope that criminal charges of assisting the suicide of that girl are able to be pursued.
There are a lot of cliche's about suicide ... and the one that is truest is that it's a permanent solution to temporary problems.