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Women have a much higher level of attempted suicide, possibly 3x as often as men. [1] I once heard a theory that women don't die from suicide as often because
by nbanks 9y ago
Women have a much higher level of attempted suicide, possibly 3x as often as men. [1] I once heard a theory that women don't die from suicide as often because they tend to use less violent means of suicide. For example, if you swallow a bottle of pills you could survive or change your mind a few minutes later and get your stomach pumped, but this rarely applies to shooting yourself in the head.
1. https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/ https://afsp.org/about-suicide/suicide-statistics/
- elgenie 9y ago"While males are 4 times more likely than females to die by suicide, females attempt suicide 3 times as often as males." So a suicide attempt by a man is 12x more likely to succeed than one by a woman.
- MagnumOpus 9y agoThat is sexist! Are you suggesting that women are less skilled than men ??!!?? (/s, obviously. Sorry I have to point it out.)
- mirimir 9y agoI get /s :) And maybe they're more skilled. In that they get the message across without actually dying.
- mirimir 9y agoI suspect that many "suicide attempts" are more like emphatic communication ("See! I really care about this!") than intention to die. When I've felt suicidal, it's always helped to imagine how one does it reliably. Then I've thought about how irreversible that would be. And then I've realized that I don't really want to die.