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Old 03-13-2008, 11:32 PM  
Odin
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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays View Post
the point is simply that trying to shoot yourself in the head and having the bullet pass through your ears and not kill you is "attempted suicide"... jumping off the 50th floor of a building a surviving is "attempted suicide"

everything else is either "suicide" or "needs attention"
Fair enough if you want to put it like that, but all the same 'attempted suicide' is called such because it shows at least some intention to actually want to commit suicide. But perhaps serious self harm is a decent way to describe it.
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