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This is such a moonshot. Right now, give all warning signs we know if, if you could identified the 100 most likely people in America to attempt suicide in the
by after_care 5y ago
This is such a moonshot. Right now, give all warning signs we know if, if you could identified the 100 most likely people in America to attempt suicide in the next 24 hours that haven’t had a previous suicide attempt or previously announced intentions of self harming you might successfully identify 5 people. Answering the question “who will attempt suicide” is a lot like “who will have a fatal car accident “. There’s a handful of obvious warning signs (drunk drivers), but even those aren’t strong enough to allow any certainty.
- polski-g 5y agoSuicidality is 47% heritable. So just get the blood of people who have committed suicide & do some GWAS studies. Then you can look for predictive genetic markers in 23andme data.