A first ever large-scale national scientific survey has revealed that 8.3 million U.S. adults, accounting for 3.7 percent of mature Americans, seriously contemplated suicide last year alone. Another 2.3 million moved forward in planning their own demise, while 1.1 million people actually took action and made an attempt to take their own lives. Those attempting suicide accounted for 0.5 percent of all American adults. Approximately 32,000 of all suicides attempted within the U.S. each years are tragically successful.