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My mum had I think three suicide attempts by overdose, too. None successful, at least not technically, they certainly contributed to the damage to her liver (along with alcohol and a daily list of painkillers, antidepressants and other prescription meds as long as my arm) that eventually killed her. The thing is she had been told repeatedly that the damage was getting worse and worse and was told a year before her death that her liver was damaged and if she didn't improve things it would inevitably be fatal. If a nothing she simply got worse. She talked a lot about wanting to die / being better off dead but she spent a month on her death bed, and certainly at that point did not want to die. Which makes me wonder if her earlier attempts were, at least subconsciously, deliberately uncertain in outcome.

Sorry everyone this thread really is depressing now :/. Then again, the thread title hardly suggests frivolity!