boinsie wrote:I'm conflicted in my response to this, so I'll keep it brief, I guess.
If one is trying to commit suicide to actually murder oneself, they don't usually call someone to allow for the attempt to be thwarted.
That's not entirely true. See
here.
Basically, people often don't make up their minds to do things all at once. So sabotaging your own suicide attempt is, as I said earlier, a sign that you might be open to being helped, but it doesn't mean that you're not serious about it. My quasi-ex-girlfriend once dated a guy who was all like, "stay with me or I'll kill myself." To which her response was, yarite. So he killed himself. And she's never entirely forgiven herself for not taking him seriously, although of course she realizes on an intellectual level that his choosing to be an asshole and ending his life was not her fault in any way.