5 Responses to “Geez. I Can’t Do Anything Right”

1. #1 |  Chris |  July 15th, 2004 at 11:58 am

   ummmm…is it wrong if I think that is freakin’ hillarious!

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2. #2 |  James D |  July 15th, 2004 at 12:25 pm

   I’ve always wondered: “how much of a failure does someone feel like when they can’t even commit suicide?”

   I’d like to see the statistics of failed suicide attempts compared to successful ones and how many of the failed ones produce a happy individual in the end (or someone who learns a better way to kill themselves ‘the next try’)?

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3. #3 |  Steve |  July 15th, 2004 at 1:27 pm

   From the website “www.healthyplace.com”:

   “…researchers extrapolated the risk of additional suicide attempts for the next 23 years.

   Their conclusion: the suicide rate for those who had attempted it once was 5.9 attempts per 1,000 people per year for the five years after the first try; 5.0 attempts per 1,000 people per year 15 to 20 years after the first try; and 6.8 attempts per 1,000 people for the final three years.

   “The rate did not decline with time,” the researchers report.”

   And it seems like about 20% of suicides are successful, although (a) that seems low to me and (b) every source has a different number.

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4. #4 |  Bronwyn |  July 15th, 2004 at 4:18 pm

   She should get in touch with the guy who jumped out of Ballantine hall here at IUB. He jumped from the 8th floor, but landed on the aluminum awning at the 2nd floor.

   We’re tooferthree on suicide successes here in the last year or two. One from the 4th floor of a parking garage, the other from Ballantine Hall - on the side without the awning, of course.

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5. #5 |  Anonymous |  July 16th, 2004 at 10:45 am

   Bronwyn — “…the other from Ballantine Hall - on the side without the awning, of course.”

   That’s what makes humans so special; we learn from the mistakes of others…

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