What Happens If You Try To Kill Yourself And Survive?
She got so depressed that she tried to kill herself. But when she laid down in front of a train to die, she lived.
Trigger warning: Descriptions of death and dying, but no images.
"When I woke up in hospital, my mum was next to me and I said to her, 'I've lost my legs, haven't I?' And she said, 'Yes.'"
The CDC reports that for every completed suicide, there are 25 failed attempts.
Many of these people (487,700 of them in 2011) end up in the emergency room, seriously injured. Sometimes they recover, but often their bodies are permanently damaged — which is what happened to Helen Galsworthy.
"Think of a suicide story as a kind of commercial. If you make the product attractive, people will want it."
Source:upworthy.com
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