It was illegal in Texas in the 80s, and I was never jailed for my attempt. (Although they would have put me in juvie, actually.) All that happened was that a police officer came to the hospital as I was being revived and took a report from my parents. It didn't even go on my record. Then he left my parents the number to a suicide help line that was disconnected when I tried it later.
They didn't even demand that I be put in a psych ward. That was optional, and up to the parents. I convinced my dad not to, and the fact that he didn't like the doctor didn't hurt, either. (The doctor was "presumptuous" enough to suggest that the problem lie with the quality of parenting, and not with me. How dare he.
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Dad wasn't too happy with that. So I got to go home. Ten months later... off to CEDU.
Anyway, if you are going to do it with a gun, apparently the best kind is a .22. The main reason for this is because the bullet is too small and there isn't enough power to create an exit wound. It just bounces off the inside of the skull and ricochets around, scrambling your brains. I honestly don't know if there is the possibility of it creating an exit wound if it's point blank, as a suicide would be. I just know that if you are going to shoot someone in the head and kill them, go with a .22.
My friend did it the smart way. She overdosed on heroin. This way, the coroner looked at it as an accidental overdose, and not a suicide, and her girlfriend was able to get the life insurance. All of us, though, knew it was a suicide.