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You see this in adults because men choose more effective methods of suicide like guns.
by heavyset_go 5y ago
You see this in adults because men choose more effective methods of suicide like guns.
- jeffbee 5y agoAccording to CDC this is also true for youth. Males use firearms 53% of the time, females only 19%.
- Jensson 5y agoMen are more likely to succeed with suicide regardless of the method. Men who overdose on medicine takes much higher dosages and therefore succeeds more often etc. The reason women don't succeed is because they aren't as serious and therefore chooses dosages or methods where you are very unlikely to die, as can be seen in this study for example: https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12888-017-1398-8 https://bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12...