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My wife is a psychiatrist and has dealt with people who survived suicide attempts. Mostly people who tried to kill themselves by shooting themself in the head. She says that her experience is that people do not immediately regret the decision just the consequence of having survived severe damage to the head.

It seems, at first thought, unreasonable that people trying to kill themselves by jumping off a bridge would be more likely to regret the decision than people who shoot themselves in the head. I wonder if this is mostly a selective choosing of the survivors of jumping off the bridge to fit a narrative.