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I am hoping you are asking from a place of wanting to understand, and not just as a rhetorical question, but a suicide attempt by definition can be a near death experience. It is entirely possible to be hospitalized for days if not weeks or longer, depending on which method was used. Failed gunshot wounds requiring multiple surgeries, near asphyxiation resulting in severe oxygen deprivation (think near drowning as a comparison), organ failure due to overdoses; these are just a few examples of the extreme trauma someone's body has to recover from and that is BEFORE one gets moved to inpatient psychiatric care. Not to mention the ongoing, possibly lifelong effects on the person's health that require support and therapy. This isn't stubbing your toe or breaking your finger. Respectfully, your question is very surprising to me, because honestly I can't think of a "kind of suicide attempt" that would require LESS than 6 days hospitalization. Again, I hope that I have respectfully answered your question from a perspective that might bring understanding. Moo.
I'm a bit shocked you would think I'm likening a suicide to stubbing your toe. I'm not at all. Outside of a couple of people taking a handful of pills and *not* spending 6 days in the hospital, I know no one that has attempted suicide and not accomplished that sad goal. I've lost friends to suicide. I wasn't trivializing it at all.