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The extent of North Koreas personality cult is such that in 2012 a 14-year-old North Korean schoolgirl drowned while attempting to rescue portraits of the two "supreme leaders" from a flood.

A 50 year old woman, Violet Gibson, attempted to assassinate Mussolini in 1927. She fired a gun once, but Mussolini moved his head and the shot hit his nose; she tried again, but the gun misfired. She was almost lynched by the crowd but was rescued by police and taken away for questioning.

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1. John Jones. A medical student who was trapped in the Nutty Putty cave while spelunking in 2009. Rescue attempts were unsuccessful and the cave entrance was eventually sealed with concrete. John's body is still there today.

2. A German lieutenant, Friedrich Lengfeld, was killed by a land mine while attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier during the Battle of Hürtgen Forest in WWII. The Americans erected a monument in his honor; the only American monument placed in any German military cemetery.

3. The Columbian army had a pop singer record a song with Morse Code hidden in the chorus so their soldiers in FARC rebel camps would know to expect a rescue attempt. They knew the rebels listened to a particular radio station and they had the DJ play it repeatedly

4. James Cameron, the only known survivor of a lynching attempt, who had a noose around his neck when an unidentified woman rescued him from a mob of over 10,000 people

5. Countless would-be adventurers have been rescued attempting to reach the bus where Chris McCandless died in "Into the Wild," as well as three known instances of fans being found dead.

6. Albert Battel and Max Liedtke, German officers who threatened to shoot a group of SS attempting to execute Jews in Poland. They successfully rescued 100 Jews, and are among the few Wehrmacht members to be recognised as Righteous Among the Nations

7. In 1845 a severely depressed dog tried to commit suicide by jumping into a river and refusing to make any attempt to escape (which goes against natural instincts). Even after being rescued, the dog ran back to the river. Eventually, the dog succeeded and died.

8. Floyd Thompson was the longest held prisoner of war in US history, spending nearly nine years in captivity in Vietnam. When he returned, his wife was living with another man and of his 3 children, only his eldest child barely remembered him. Within 4 years of rescuing, he attempted suicide.

9. In 1942 RMS Laconia was sunk by a German U-Boat who then commenced rescue operations, broadcasting their humanitarian intent on open radio. With a deck full of survivors, USAAF bombers then sunk the boat. The German navy subsequently abandoned attempting rescue of civilian survivors.

10. A a 14-year-old North Korean schoolgirl drowned while attempting to rescue portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il from a flood.

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During the evacuation at Dunkirk, The last of the British Army left on 3 June, However, Churchill insisted on coming back for the French, so the Royal Navy returned on 4 June in an attempt to rescue as many as possible of the French rearguard.

In 1984 Olympic biathlete Kari Swenson was kidnapped by two men intent on making her their wife. She was rescued but the ensuing media coverage attempted to turn the criminals into folk heroes. - source

Karczówka - where a man died falling into a cesspool, who had someone attempt to rescue him, who also died, and so on and so forth until 5% of it's population died doing this. - source

The US government's advice on escaping killer bees: "RUN away quickly. Do not stop to help others ... Continue to RUN. Do not stop running until you reach shelter, such as a vehicle or building ... Do not attempt to rescue [others] yourself".

Henry Worsley attempted to cross Antarctica solo and on foot in 2015 and cam within 30 miles of his goal before he had to call for help. He died soon after being rescued. - source

A Swedish man may or may not have attempted to kill himself by staying inside his car smoking and eating snow for around two months but managed to survive and eventually be rescued. "He was so thin by the time he was rescued that his upper arms were only the thickness of Mr Gidlund's wrists."

Jesse L. Brown. The first African American Navy pilot. During the Korean war, his Corsair was shot down, his wingman, Tom Hudner, crash landed his plane and attempted to rescue Brown. Brown died of his injuries. Hudner was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.

Mauro Prosperia, a pentathlete who, while lost in the Sahara, attempted to commit suicide only for his blood to clot due to severe dehydration. He survived a further 5 days and walked 291km before being rescued.

A Girl that was found living with Monkeys in a forest in India. When Police would attempt to rescue her, the monkeys would chase them away.

UK caver Neil Moss who in 1959 got jammed underground after descending a narrow unexplored shaft. He lost consciousness as carbon dioxide from his own respiration built up while lengthy rescue attempts all failed: he died and his body was left in the shaft which was then sealed

A 2006 LEGO online game that featured a team of Bionicle characters attempting to rescue kidnapped members of The All-American Rejects