If you’re going to kill yourself, do it right, dammit.
If you really believe nobody else cares about you, then:
1. Don’t just paralyze yourself, make yourself comatose, or otherwise leave yourself alive, but a burden on people who supposedly “don’t care about you.”
2. Don’t involve other people, whether to get a posthumous version of the “15 minutes of fame” you may believe you’re due, or whatever. Kill just yourself. And above all, do not be like the would-be L.A. commuter rail would-be suicide and back out while still killing others.
In my city, we had a person do something similar. She drove her car across the median of I-35E in a suicide attempt. She, too, failed in this objective, but managed to kill multiple persons in the oncoming car she hit.
I don’t believe that such cases exemplify mental illness, at least not enough to beat the rap on an insanity plea. If you’re rational enough to plan out such a suicide, rather than gulp a bottle of sleeping pills in an alcoholic haze, you’re rational enough to stand trial.
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