Other behaviors in suicidal people include reckless behaviors (such as increased drug and alcohol use, or taking unnecessary risks like dangerous driving), unexpected or unusual farewells to family and friends, and seeking out means to kill themselves (such as acquiring pills, guns, or other lethal objects).
In many cases, suicide is an attempt to escape a situation that causes unbearable suffering.
A majority of those that die by suicide suffer from depression, alcoholism or other mental health problems such as bipolar disorder.
[2] For much of history, people that attempted suicide were seen as violating laws against murder.
By the eleventh century, courts "regarded suicide as 'murder of oneself'" and was "therefore viewed...as a criminal act.