as someone who's attempted suicide, i say save them. i've been in and out of mental hospitals at least a couple times a year for the past 4 years (only one was a suicide attempt),and i've seen dozens of patients come in half dead from suicide attempts. usually they are pissed for a while but almost all of them eventually were thankfull they didn't die. most attempts are only attempts because the person attempting suicide doesn't actually want to die, they just want a way out, and death is the only option they see. this is usually from some kind of emotional trauma, like a loss, or drug induced phsycosis, like a lot of others said. others (like myself) have an ongoing condition that can bring a long list of things, depression, hearing/seeing things, impulse disorders, anxiety disorders, social phobias...etc, etc. a lot of people without disorders don't understand that. depression isn't just "feeling down" and scitzophrenia isn't just having multiple personalities and psycosis doesn't mean you kill people at random. being psychotic actually only means that you expierence things that aren't real. aka visual and auditory hallucinations. people in this category tend to relapse since it's not just one issue they have to work on. they often get overwhelmed and usually end up back in the hospital if not properly medicated. either way people don't usually stay suicidal. either they fit into the first category and after they learn to cope with their issue they're fine, or they fit into the second group and it'll come in cycles, with the impulse to commit suicide getting stronger each time, which is the other reason suicide attempts happen...the impulse isn't strong enough yet. they want to kill themselves, but are still afraid of death, or the instinct of self preservation won't let them. sometimes people have every intent to kill themselves, but the method isn't actually lethal. for example...certain medicines will not kill you, in any dosage, and a slit wrist will clot if not done properly (and properly is harder than people think). it's easy to say "well just put a bullet in your head, that'll work." that usually does work,but even though suicidal people don't care about their own lives anymore, they usually still care about someone around them, and they don't want that person seeing their mutilated corpse. again, there's also that self preservation insinct that just won't let some people pull the trigger or jump off a roof, so they take pills or cut their wrists in a more passive attempt. these make up most of the people i mentioned seeing dozens of. anyway i say save them, and leave them with three disiscions...a) medication and therapy...usually works. b) learn to live with the problem (WAY harder than it sounds and not usually the choice taken), and c) try again. i know c) is kind of a ****** up option, but lets face it, people will always see it as an option.
p.s. not all people who cut themselves are emo...just the people that show off the scars and go "look at me, i have problems." these people do this, and now people think everyone who cuts themselves is just trying to get attention. so **** those emo ******** the small group of people who cut themselves for reasons other than fasion do it as a distraction from their present state. i'm sure all of you have accedentally cut yourself in the middle of something...and i'm willing to bet most of you dropped what you were doing to tend to the wound. whatever you were doing doesn't matter, all you're worried about it the cut. thats the best way i can describe it. i also knew people in the hospital who did it for the chemical thats released when you get injured...slight euphoria, highly addictive. oh and i don't cut myself, havn't in years. like any emotional escape, be it self mutilation, drugs, alchohol, it gets real old real fast, unless you get addicted, then it gets old and you're ************** doing **** you hate yourself for, which perpetuates the cycle.
oh, and as far as legalities of attempting suicide, i've never heard of charges being pressed on anyone for attempting suicide, although when i did it i was locked in a mental hospital for almost two months under order of the coroner, and would be arrested if i were to escape.