• Hegar
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    72 months ago

    Starting ones self on fire is a suicide attempt, regardless of political motive.

    Is being a soldier assigned to conduct an assault operation also a suicide attempt?

    Knowingly doing something that might kill you is not the sole criteria for a suicide attempt. If they weren’t suicidal it wasn’t a suicide attempt.

    • @BassTurd
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      22 months ago

      Doing something that will almost assuredly kill you is a suicide attempt.

      • Hegar
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        22 months ago

        Trying to take your own life out of depression and being willing to give your life to a cause differ in intent, goals, context and likely methods.

        What benefits do you see from classifying them as the same thing? They seem very different to me.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 months ago

        You shouldn’t try to answer clinical questions with Merriam-Webster. It’s a very redditor thing to do and just as incorrect as that would suggest.

        • ᵀʰᵉʳᵃᵖʸᴳᵃʳʸ
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          2 months ago

          Lol. I’m a therapist, and you’re being pedantic. Suicide means killing yourself. He may not have been clinically “suicidal” but he still attempted suicide

          Edit: I thought you were the original commenter when I said you were being pedantic

          • @[email protected]
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            32 months ago

            I agree, but Merriam-Webster remains a bad way to try to squash claims of nuance. You are correct independent of the bad and redditor-esque method of argument you chose. You should know very well that texts with actual authority exist that better establish these things, like the DSM in this case.