Halles suicide attempt.

Okay so apparently, according to some big flappy Hollywood mag, Halle Barry "attempted" suicide after her breakup with baseball star David Justice. I have to put attempted in quotation marks because of the awful amount of BS that whole idea suggests. She claims that, after their break, she was so distraught that she wanted to die, so she "attempted" suicide by asphixiation, running her car while she was in it and it was in the garage. After a while, she had an epiphany and didn't inhale enough gas to die. That is not an attempt, that is a consideration but definately not an attempt. I remember high school and all the suicide attempts that people talked about, all the girls with the cross slashed wrists, not slashed length ways mind you but cut, instead, from pinky to thumb, the non-lethal way. As everyone knows, those girls had their perks, really all you had to do was act sympathetic for a couple of beers and you would be in for some emotionally distant, backseat, crazy girl hanky panky but those sideways scars were attempts at attention, not suicide. I have seen a few people who have attempted suicide, they tend not to move alot because of the coma they are in, or they tend to have large scars that are very, very noticeable. If you look up the word attempt in a thesaurus, you will find such words as, strive, stab, ones all, tackle, take on, try, endeavor, exert. You will not find the words, half assed, poor show, or whoops. I am sick of people saying they attempted something when it is obvious that they did not attempt it at all. An attempt is an exertion of effort, you must try. If you leap from a building, in the hope to die but inadvertantly hit something that slows your rate of descent, leaving you alive but in a vegetative state, that is an attempt. If you sit in a garage with the car running, in the hope of dieing but when the gas gets a bit wiffy, open the door to let the garage air out, well, that is just being dilatory. Hollywood is no stranger to the "notice me" type of suicide "attempt" and mabye it makes for good news but I find it odd that they always pop up ight when a celeb is flagging. I am just saying, in high school, you are not fully developed, you crave attention and will do anything to get it. After high school that should stop, you should have to grow up and let the word attempt mean what it really means. I sometimes think about my own self inflicted death, I would ingest four gallons of blue paint, tie two grenades to my stomach, find a nice fat group of hippies and pull the pin. If, somehow, both of the grenades were duds, at least the painful vomitting of paint would most likely convulse me to a gruesome death, take that stinky, love children. If, by some slim chance, I survived, I am sure I wold be a vegetable in the aftermath. I would not, however, drink a teaspoon of NyQuil and then have a vision of my grandfather and choose not to robotrip to death. In summation, Halle, you thought you may want to die after a bad day, join the club, it is called the human race and we all go through it everyonce an a while. Everyone, everywhere, at some point in their lives considers doing themselves in, it's the lemming in all of us (getting a thrumming guitar lick in your head every time you are dealt the ace of spade, is the Lemmy in all of us). You are not special, you are human but, above and beyond all that, you attempted diddly poop.