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• Some attempt suicide or get out of the biz for good, never looking back.
  — Brandi California, SPIN, 1 July 2024
• But what initially drove the person to attempt suicide might still be at play.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 10 Sep. 2022
• Remove guns from your home; lock up pills; and be aware that kitchen utensils, as well as ropes, can be used to attempt suicide.
  — Rachel Hutton, Star Tribune, 31 Jan. 2021
• But those with at least one adult in their life who accepts them are 40 percent less likely to attempt suicide.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• Although more women than men attempt suicide, men are 4x more likely to die by suicide.
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
• Nine out of 10 people who attempt suicide and survive will not go on to die by suicide later.
  — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 19 Oct. 2023
• Previous research has shown that women are more likely to attempt suicide than men.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2024
• Research has also shown that transgender youths are far more likely to attempt suicide.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2022
• When she was called to the stand, Keohane talked about the hopelessness that had driven her to attempt suicide.
  — Aviva Stahl, Wired, 8 July 2021
• Women attempt suicide more often than men by a factor of three, but men succeed more often by a factor of four.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• Such results suggest that many emerging adults who attempt suicide don’t desire to end their life but rather hope to end their distress.
  — Eric Wood, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• Women with autism are three to four times more likely to attempt suicide than neurotypical women.
  — Zhara Astra, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2022
• In general, no single factor leads a person to attempt suicide.
  — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Nov. 2025
• Some of Casanova’s paramours were bawds who used him for their own ends, and one such humiliation drove him to attempt suicide.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• People in the study with a headache diagnosis were twice as likely to attempt suicide compared with those without headaches.
  — Tom Gavin, EverydayHealth.com, 6 Feb. 2025
• Lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth are nearly 4x more likely to attempt suicide than straight youth.
  — Alex Wagner, SPIN, 28 Sep. 2022
• In the United States, women are more likely to attempt suicide, for instance, but men are more likely to die by it.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2021
• One in five compulsive gamblers will attempt suicide in their life, a higher rate than for any other category of addict.
  — Mckay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026
• What is sometimes harder to understand is that many children who do not show signs of depression nonetheless attempt suicide.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Fearful that the neurotic Florence might attempt suicide, Olive invites her to move in as her roommate.
  — Kay Johnson, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• But research shows that adoptee trauma is real; a 2013 study found that adoptees were about four times more likely to attempt suicide than non-adoptees.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
• For each person who has died by suicide, many more people think about or attempt suicide, according to the CDC.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 10 Sep. 2021
• At that point, Holt refused to exit the vehicle, saying her plan was to kill herself or attempt suicide by cop, the affidavit said.
  — Chris Spargo, People.com, 14 Aug. 2025
• When Arkansas passed such a ban last year, Ladinsky said her colleague who provides the same care in that state had five patients attempt suicide.
  — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 5 May 2022
• Between 30 and 50 percent of people with bipolar disorder will attempt suicide at least once in their lives.
  — Gwendolyn Rak, IEEE Spectrum, 19 May 2024
• The suit also seeks punitive damages, alleging the defendants were aware of the high risk that Killin could attempt suicide, but ignored it.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 15 July 2022
• Black students were more likely to attempt suicide than Asian, Hispanic or White students.
  — Donna St. George, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2023
• But some people who attempt suicide do so impulsively or don’t have a mental health condition, Chaudhary said.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2025
• The law set the bar for involuntary treatment so high that Reynolds would basically have to attempt suicide or nearly kill someone to meet it.
  — Brandon Del Pozo, New York Daily News, 15 Dec. 2024
• Over the course of a lifetime, about one in eight people with gambling problems will attempt suicide, according to a 2024 study.
  — Suzy Khimm, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026