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Summarizing, this is about decreasing the effectiveness of suicide attempts, not their rate. About a fifth of the world's suicides are done by drinking pestici
by emiliobumachar 9y ago
Summarizing, this is about decreasing the effectiveness of suicide attempts, not their rate.
About a fifth of the world's suicides are done by drinking pesticides. When removing that alternative, people turn to less effective methods. Those that fail are unlikely to try again.
Very eye-opening.
- jessriedel 9y ago> When removing that alternative, people turn to less effective methods. Is there data on this? The article mentions that most people contemplate the decision for less than 30 minutes, so if pesticides aren't accessible they literally might not try anything else. (Or by "less effective methods", you might just mean they are less likely to complete suicide, which is true.)
- emiliobumachar 9y agoBy "less effective methods", I did mean that they'll still try, but probably fail.
- Anderkent 9y agoOr if the method is less immediately available, they may not try at all, as the longer consideration time is enough to realise they don't actually want to die. As they say: > Leah Utyasheva: Exactly. The research shows that it is in majority of cases with pesticide self poisoning, it is an impulsive event, and people think for less than 30 minutes before actually poisoning themselves, less than 30 minutes. And this of course, is a life altering event. And the other thing is that apart from low planning, it is also low repetition event. Less than 10% of people who tried killing themselves will go on to try to do it again.
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- xiphias 9y agoThe headline was about decreasing suicide rate, not about decreasing the number of attempts (and actually that was the main point of the article: decrease the ratio of successful attempts)