One of the risk factors associated with suicide is previous suicide attempts. So I wouldn't say that all people who fail at a suicide attempt are glad about it afterwards. Some move on to successfully kill themselves latter. May be a previous attempt even alleviates their inhibitions? Sort of how people who slit their wrists will make a couple of 'test' cuts before they actually go all the way.
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Originally Posted by Mondrian  Yes, you hear about cases where an attempt has failed and the person goes on to be substantially glad that it did so. I don't know of any such cases myself, though, and I wonder if this is in part a myth
associated with the taboo of suicide. |