Reply To: Any Reason Not To Save A Potential Suicide?

most “suicide attempts” are actually an effort to obtain help or let known to the world ones despondency and are not actually attempts to commit suicide.

You’re absolutely right. However, I would classify those people as not totally mentally competent, and subject to the exemption in my footnote.

And I grant you that there’s probably no way to know the difference on a practical level. The whole discussion is hypothetical.

can still do Tsuvah

True. But the same could be said for anyone who is in the category of “ain ma’alin.”

The Wolf