suicide risk assessment Quotes

Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time.

Ka thought it strangely depressing that the suicide girls had had to struggle to find a private moment to kill themselves. Even after swallowing their pills, even as they lay quietly dying, they’d had to share their rooms with others.

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? "Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself."

There are a great many ways to commit suicide you know.

Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.

Trying to stop suiciders -- which we're doing a pretty good job of on occasion -- is difficult to do. And what the Iraqis are going to have to eventually do is convince those who are conducting suiciders who are not inspired by Al Qaeda, for example, to realize there's a peaceful tomorrow.

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

You have endless ways you can commit suicide without dying dying.

There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.