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unusual facts about suicide attempt



Moyamensing Prison

On July 1, 1849, when Edgar Allan Poe was in Philadelphia, he drank, became drunk and hallucinatory, and made a suicide attempt.


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Brandon Hill, Bristol

In the popular television series, Skins, Brandon Hill features on a number of occasions; including, Cassie's suicide attempt and as the rendez-vous point for Sid and Cassie at the climax of the first series.

Charlotte Grayson

In "Destiny," Charlotte was put into rehab some time after her suicide attempt.

Fort Point, San Francisco

The most famous example is Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 thriller Vertigo, wherein Kim Novak's character Madeleine jumps into the San Francisco Bay in an apparent suicide attempt.

Newman-Sinclair

Stanley Kubrick used this model of camera for Clockwork Orange in a dubious way: in order to credibly film the suicide attempt of the character Alex, Kubrick literally smashed six Newman Sinclair cameras into pavement, one of which thereby produced Kubrick's desired view.

Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson

In a sneak peek interview shot before Jackson's suicide attempt, Jackson remarked that her father had promised to teach her his famous dance move, the Moonwalk, but had never got the chance.

Ryan Owens

During his time on World News Now, Owens was involved in controversy when the two anchors inappropriately made light of Owen Wilson's suicide attempt on-air and they were reprimanded for this by ABC News.

Symphonie espagnole

In March 1878, Tchaikovsky was staying at Nadezhda von Meck's estate at Clarens, Switzerland, while recovering from the breakdown of his disastrous marriage and his subsequent suicide attempt.

That Hagen Girl

After multiple retakes of a scene in which Reagan's character rescues Temple's from a suicide attempt by jumping into a river during a storm, Reagan collapsed.