Exploding the house

A 41 year-old man in Illinois of the United States tried to commit suicide by blowing himself up. He deliberately filled a room with natural gas and lit a lighter, which blew off the side of his house. This being the third attempt at suicide in the same day, he may have hoped it would work this time. However, it didn't. But it did severely damage his house, caused burn injuries that are not life-threatening but still extremely painful with skin falling off, and he might even be criminally charged.

A car fire

A man in his 50s tried to kill himself by setting his car on fire with himself inside. Firefighters and paramedics arrived soon enough to extinguish the fire and rescue the man. Now he has ended up with painful burns all over his body, and he is also down one car.

Fire with children

A 32-year old woman tried to kill herself and her children by sedating themselves and setting the house on fire. However, the medications she used to try to sedate themselves didn't take, so the children managed to alert firefighters. Not only did the woman end up with a wrecked house, she is now facing arson and attempted murder charges.

Trader shooting

A 36-year old man in Brazil shot himself in the chest in a suicide attempt on the trading floor in the stock exchange. This halted Brazilian financial transactions of stocks and securities for 15 minutes, and the trader ended up with a chest wound while failing to kill himself.

Highway dash

A 30-year old man in Utah tried to kill himself by jumping in front of a car entering an interstate highway. It didn't work, and he ended up in the hospital with a whole lot of injuries.

In a garage with a baby

A 21-year old woman put herself in an enclosed garage with her baby and ran a car for its exhaust fumes. Carbon monoxide built up to a level where the infant started to convulse. They were extracted by paramedics who were called by her boyfriend, who was alerted by the apparent suicide notes she left, and were put into a hyperbaric chamber to get rid of the carbon monoxide buildup. Not only the woman is now facing a reckless infant endangerment charge, but her son may also have suffered permanent brain damage.

Hanging in someone else's house

A 42-year old man in Michigan broke into his wife's home and tried to hang himself on a swing set. Police who arrived responding to the break-in managed to get him down before he asphyxiated. He will not only have to face the embarrassment of trying to hang himself from a swing set, but he may also face possible criminal charges.