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I did, once. I went halfway across the country. I had told my parents that I was going to spend the night at a friends and instead got on a plane to Toronto. My plan was then to anonymously ask for help or complete suicide. I was a little ambivalent. My parents reported me missing to the RCMP who opened a missing persons' case as I was a danger to myself. They took a recorded statement from my father and put a trace on his phone line in case I called. Ultimately the local police found me debating whether or not to complete suicide (I had immediate access to the method) and took me to the hospital and my family was notified shortly afterwards. They flew out to take me home. I was 19 at the time.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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