Do you think some people commit suicide for attention and not because they want to leave this earth?

[*Ghosty*]

Genuine suicides are usually carried out quietly and with great determination, with no possibility of the person being rescued.

If a person shoots themselves in the head, jumps off a tall place, or hangs themselves - you can be sure they didn't want to be rescued, no cries for help there.

The wrist-slashers, the over-dosers, the self-drowners (amongst others) usually want to be found and helped - yes they want attention, of course they do.

Some would-be suicides are hugely attracted to landmarks from which to commit suicide; for instance your Empire State Building guy. I have no problem with that, they feel it is their destiny.

The Twitter/Tweeter who committed suicide publicly - the site itself should've shut all that down, that's pretty disgusting, dangerous too for unstable onlookers. Sometimes suicides can happen en masse, for instance the place in Wales, UK, where teens were killing themselves one after another.

One problem with suicide is that IF it starts out as a cry for help, yet no-one turns up TO help, you're in big trouble. So many of them forget or don't understand that they won't SEE their loved ones weeping and wishing they'd helped more.

The graveyards must be FULL of people who, if they could, would never have done such a thing with hindsight.