I am not sure if this is to trivialize the subject (after Robin Williams it seems anything but trivial) but I am just reading about the threat of suicide by Francois Hollande's partner .Apparently she grabbed a bag of sleeping pills after learning of his relationship with another woman.
BBC News - Trierweiler 'took pills' over Hollande split in France
Now I have no doubt that Hollande's behaviour was bad but was her behaviour far ,far worse? Was she using the threat of suicide as a lever to manipulate his behaviour to her liking? (obviously there is no answer to that in this particular instance if for no other reason than that common decency averts our eyes unless we are close friends of either party).
Is this kind of behavior widespread in cases of attempted suicide? Are there many cases of Russian Roulette types of attempted suicide where the aim is not so much to end their own life as to put pressure on partners or others?
I think this would be pretty odious behaviour (even when the target may have been "asking for it" )