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This is a little misleading. Men attempt suicide with more reliably lethal methods like firearms, whereas women attempt suicide using more unreliably lethal met
by ModernMech 4y ago
This is a little misleading. Men attempt suicide with more reliably lethal methods like firearms, whereas women attempt suicide using more unreliably lethal methods like overdosing on medication [1]. In fact, according to your link, women attempt suicide at a rate of 1.8x that of men [2].
[1]: https://www.verywellmind.com/gender-differences-in-suicide-methods-1067508 https://www.verywellmind.com/gender-differences-in-suicide-m...
[2]: https://www.datocms-assets.com/12810/1649682186-14296_afsp_2022_national_fact_sheet_update_m1_v4.pdf https://www.datocms-assets.com/12810/1649682186-14296_afsp_2...
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- Banana699 4y ago>Men attempt suicide with more reliably lethal methods like firearms And succeed ~4x times as much. In other words, GP is correct and you just needed to scratch an itch to nitpick.
- ModernMech 4y agoThe claim was that the number was due to cavalier attitudes, which is unsupported. I think the added context is important. Maybe you don’t, but others might. The drastic 3.8x number is more a function of the mode of suicide rather than cavalier attitudes, as far as I see it.