Fiction
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Fact
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People who talk about it
Don’t commit suicide.
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Most people who kill themselves have
given definite warnings of their
intention.
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Suicidal people are absolutely intent
upon dying.
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Most suicidal people are
ambivalent about living and dying: they gamble with death but may retain the desire to live.
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Suicide happens without
warning.
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Suicidal people often give
indications of thoughts (sometimes before the thoughts become intentions) by words or actions.
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Once a person becomes suicidal,
he/she is suicidal forever.
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Suicidal thoughts may return, but
they are not permanent, and in some people they never return.
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After a crisis, improvement means
that the suicide
risk is over.
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Many suicides occur in a period
of improvement when the person has
the energy and the will to turn despairing thoughts into self-destructive action.
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Suicide occurs mainly among the rich/the
poor.
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Suicide occurs in all groups in
society.
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You are either the suicidal type
or you’re not.
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It could happen to anybody.
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