Suicide attempts are high even in healthy populations.
As he stayed awake, agitated and delirious, they maintained a vigil for more than a week. Later, after the crisis abated, a friend invited the man to live in his lodging and helped start him on a career in law. The young man later went on to become sixteenth President of the United States - Abraham Lincoln. But that was then. The risk increases 1.3-fold for those with major depression or alcoholism.