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So women are now committing suicide at the same rate as men?

• DanBC 10y ago
  No. Men are still dying more than women. But women attempt suicide more often than men. And women have started using more lethal means than they used to. And the combination - more suicide attempts, more lethal methods, is worrying.
  • xherberta 10y ago
    Right. The way I look at this, suicide attempts are just the tail, the extreme cases -- even more people are not quite that desperate, are suffering at a level that's only almost unbearable.
• niels_olson 10y ago
  No, men die of suicide at 3.5x the rate of women. But there have been similar articles about the general trend of increasing suicide rates, and the highest rate being among white men. Whenever there's a gender or race break-out, there's opportunity for specific articles as people dig deeper into the data and start finding out the rates for other sub-populations.