 For the most part, suicidal individuals do not manifest signs of systemic irrationality, much less the signs of legally definable insanity, (Radden 1982) and engage in suicidal conduct voluntarily. However, these facts are consistent with the choice to engage in suicidal behavior being irrational, and serious questions can be raised about just how often the conditions for rational suicide are met in actual cases of self-inflicted death. Indeed, the possibility of rational suicide requires that certain assumptions about suicidal individuals’ rational autonomy be true which may not be in many cases. A person’s choice to undertake suicidal behavior may not be a reflection of her considered interests, and so her self-inflicted death would be an act that she would, in calmer and clearer moments, recoil at. For instance, only some suicidal persons engage in extensive planning for their own deaths. In many instances, the final determination to end one’s life is instead impulsive, reflecting suicidal persons’ proclivity toward volatility and agitation (Cholbi 2002, Joiner 2010, 70–84). And although repeated suicide attempts by the same individual are common, the impulse to suicidal behavior is often transient and dissipates of its own accord (Blauner 2003). Suicidal persons can also have difficulty appreciating the finality of their deaths, believing that (assuming there is no afterlife) they will somehow continue to be subjects of conscious experience after they die. They may occasionally exhibit romanticized and grandiose beliefs about the likely effects of their deaths (delusions of martyrdom, revenge, etc.) Furthermore, suicidal persons are often hesitant about their own actions, hoping that others will intervene and signaling to others the hope that they will intervene (Shneidman 1985). Considerations such as these seem to imply that the choice to engage in suicide is often not rational in that it does not reflect sound reasoning, an adequate grasp of one’s situation, or a clearheaded understanding of the implications of one’s suicide in relation to one’s long-term interests.