Failed suicide attempts

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I know it is not politically correct to laugh at a failed suicide attempt but sometimes it is difficult to contain laughter, and, after all, no one died. The best one I remember was in a protest in the 1970’s in front of a prefecture. A man came there with a jerry can of gasoline and poured it on him, then searched desperately for the matches. Damned, he had forgotten them ! He was carried away by the firemen to take a shower in a mental asylum. Alright, it was something classical in the 1970’s, but the following one was deserving an Oscar for originality : a woman in her 30’s was brought suffocating to a hospital, but was refusing to open her mouth. They forced her to open it and removed with tweezers from her throat a gorgeous thong in pink cotton lace. And then there are those who are really unlucky in life, including when they want to commit suicide : last Wednesday in South France a man climbed at the top of a high power line to commit suicide. He should have died before reaching the top, but, voilà, there was no electricity on this line this day. He finally climbed down and was also sent to a mental asylum. The photo was posted on Twitter by the Gendarmerie.