Suicide by the numbers
In the book 'Why people die by suicide' , author Thomas Joiner briskly summarizes reams of studies on self-killing:
1) in most countries, men are about 4 times more likely than women to die by suicide; only in China do female suicides outnumber male ones;
2) in United States, Caucasians commit suicide at about twice the rate of African Americans;
3) your suicide risk is also higher if you're a physician, divorced, or elderly, if you live in rural county, if you've moved during the last year, if you regularly suffer from nightmares, or if you have tattoos.
Labels: Funny Statistics
posted by Life Records at 2/07/2006
5 Comments:
i believe it was in an abnormal psych class in college, we learned that men at 3x as likely to commit suicide, but women are 3x as like to ATTEMPT it. therefore, for every 1 female death, there are 3 male deaths, and 9 female attempts. the reasons seems to be that women are conscientious about family having to clean up after them etc. women typically try to O.D. or gas themselves, things that take time and you can reverse. men are typically more messy, gunshots, jumping in front of moving objects, hanging, etc.
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10:45 PM
A little scary but fascinating all the same! :)
2:24 AM
American Indian's die by suicide at the highest rate in America, and the Finnish come in a close second. By my age reckoning, I should have killed myself by now or have become a victim of homicide. Also known fact is that Native American's are more likely to die of homicide then any other racial group! Life sucks then you blow your brains out!
2:54 AM
I don´t have tatoo´s, don´t suffer of nightmares, don´t moved last year, don´t live in rural county, not divorced and i´m not a physician...
Am I a lucky person? ;)
7:47 AM
A psychiatric nurse told me once that dentists are the most likely profession to kill themselves.
8:02 PM
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