Dr. Lee Ming-been, superintendent of the Taipei City Psychiatric Center, points out that many people believe that suicide is a spur-of-the-moment act conceived and carried out on an impulse, and as such cannot be prevented, but research shows that 30 % of unsuccessful suicides try to kill themselves again, of whom 20 % succeed within a year.
台北市立療養院院長李明濱指出，很多人認為自殺是情緒衝動下的臨時起意行為，無法預防，但研究卻顯示，百分之三十的自殺未遂者會繼續嘗試，其中更有百分之二十會在一年內「自殺成功」。