My mom did when I was 10.
I’ve only personally known (definition varies) of a couple.
The uncle of a good friend who took us out on his boat one time.
A friend from high school, but I’d moved and changed high schools when he did it.
The mother of a childhood friend with whom I’ve long since lost contact.
The only one I’ve known personally was F. Gwynplaine Macintyre.
I’m in the “more than 1” category, only because I knew people who ended their lives during the first years of the AIDS epidemic in NYC. There were no treatments available, and a quick death was preferable to a long painful one.
And I’ve known a few other suicides as well. The worst was a 2nd cousin, whose 12-year-old son discovered her hanging in the basement. He lost his mind, and has been institutionalized most of the time since.
I don’t know a single person that commited suicide. I didn’t realize that was so unusual.
Zero.
In fact, other than relatives, the number of people I know who have simply died in any way I could probably count on one hand.
Two. A girl in my dorm in college who I hung out with with other friends a few times took cyanide, probably because of school and family pressures. A work colleague who I didn’t know all that well shot himself after his wife left him.
Only two who I’d say I knew well – a brother-in-law and a classmate, both depressed after the death of a child.
A fellow high school student who dropped out. He had an argument with his girlfriend, then shot himself with his parent’s hunting rifle.
There was also a rumor that a one of my schoolmates had witnessed her mother killing herself. This was probably just some weird story kids like to spread.
9 I knew close enough to hurt, 4 or 5 others well enough to put face and name together instantly. Three were family members or in-laws.
My first boyfriend shot himself in the head (four years after we split, for unrelated reasons).
A close girlfriend hanged herself in her garage whilst her two young children played inside the house.
My (ex) husband locked himself in a car with a hose connected to the exhaust pipe and died of carbon monoxide poisoning.
My solicitor (attorney in US-speak) also hanged himself.
I believe (but have no Coronial report to back this up) that my once best friend, my SIL and my BIL also took their own lives through intentional drug overdoses.
Yeah, I’ve known a few. 
Me too. A work friend’s husband killed himself, but we never met.
My (step) cousin recently hung himself. He was only 23 and was just diagnosed with a schizophrenic disorder. A relative (who is a religious freak and anti-psych medication) took him in, and took him off his meds. My cousin shortly thereafter took his life. It was very sad, he was a gorgeous young man, with lots of friends, and was a Marine.
Suicide runs in this branch of the family. His great aunt, grandfather, and uncle all killed themselves too, and many of his aunts and uncles and cousins have attempted suicide.
pananche, on the other hand would those euthesanas really count? It’s hard to say.
They were terminally ill at the time. So they wouldn’t be nessarily classfied as “regular” sucides.
Some guy who was Important in my town shot himself. I think it was that his busniness wasn’t doing very well. I vaguely remember hearing that he’d shot himself in front of people.
A guy I went to high school with (but didn’t know too well) also shot himself. No known reason, as he didn’t leave a note.
Neither one had anything to do with me, I assure you.
I’m 29, and I can think of 5. The really embarrassing thing (considering most suicides feel like no one cares about them), is that I feel like I’m forgetting more than one person . . .
#1 was a classmate in school who basically committed suicide by cop-- he ran from the cops, when they set up a roadblock he stopped, let his passengers out, and then took off through a crowd of officers on foot. The guy had an irrational hatred for/obsession with cops, and I’m pretty sure he knew that they’d kill him for that. They obliged.
#2 was my mom’s best friend’s son (so sort of like a cousin to me- we knew each other from infancy.) His baby mama wouldn’t let him see his kid, he was hooked on crack, he got fired from his job as a truckdriver for flipping his rig. Shotgun.
#3 was a cousin of mine who “accidentally” hung herself. I don’t think anyone in the family believes the part in quotes.
#4 was a dear friend who was tangled up in a cybercrime ring of epic proportions, and was about to go to jail for the rest of his life for something he probably didn’t do. He believed he was going to get the book thrown at him because he was high profile (in a previous incident, he had hacked the US Department of Defense and NASA when he was 15 years old.) Handgun.
#5 was a guy I went to school with and lived on the same street as for the next few years after high school. Real clean-cut soccer player type. He came from a beer background but developed champagne taste. Got into SUVs, stereos, motorcycles, etc. Started selling drugs to pay his bills, got busted trafficking a large amount of heroin, shot up a lethal dose while out on bail.
I’ve known a few OD’s too, but no way of knowing for sure if they were intentional or not. One was a flamboyantly gay guy who got harassed quite a bit. I’m pretty sure his was intentional.
Same for me.
I don’t think it is unusual - check the poll results. I’m kind of surprised that “none, ever” wasn’t included as an option by itself, and I think if it had been it would have been the majority choice.
I know no suicides, and no (as far as I know) attempteds.
I’m 28 and I’ve known two.
The first one didn’t technically “succeed” in that she’s still breathing and alive, after a fashion, but sustained such severe hypoxic brain injury I wouldn’t say the person she was is present anymore.
4 personally; another 4 once-removed, so although they weren’t my friends, I certainly knew them.
Like Eva Luna, one shot herself after shooting her young son.
Am still haunted by a dear friend. After a number of attempts and in therapy, I was so angry about it all I told him how wasteful, pathetic and controlling it is to have everyone who loves and cares for him on tenterhooks all the time and he threw himself off a cliff. Ain’t no coming back from that; and the ultimate 'fuck you."