Suicide happens without warning. Studies reveal that the suicidal person gives many clues and warnings regarding his suicidal intentions. Suicidal people are fully intent on dying. Almost no one commits suicide without letting others know how he is feeling. Once a person is suicidal, he is suicidal forever.
Improvement following a suicidal crisis means that the suicidal risk is over.
Suicide strikes much more often among the rich-or conversely, it occurs almost exclusively among the poor. Suicide does not run in families. It is an individual pattern. All suicidal individuals are mentally ill, and suicide always is the act of a psychotic person. Studies of hundreds of genuine suicide notes indicate that although the suicidal person is extremely unhappy, he is not necessarily mentally ill.