Physicians
Dentists
Veterinarians
Finance workers
Chiropractors
http://www.newhealthguide.org/Highest-Suicide-Rate-By-Profession.html
Not surprisingly the most prevalent method of suicide among doctors and other health professionals is drug overdose due to their easy access to such drugs and they are the most “successful” at committing suicide via intentional drug overdose, presumably because they know what to take and how much to accomplish the job. Not sure about why the suicide rate is so high among veterinarians and dentists and chiropractors, but many physicians and RN’s are under a great deal of stress; they also have a high rate of divorce because of the long hours and odd shifts, plus dealing with death depending on their specialty, on a daily basis.
It is also not surprising that people working in the higher end of the finance industry are also under a great deal of stress. They also work very long hours that put stresses on their personal lives. And one day you are a superstar and making the big bonuses, living the “high” life; the next day you are on the verge of losing your job, reputation, your wife or husband, all over one bad decision that can not only cost your firm big bucks but also cause losses of millions of dollars for your investors. Not to mention the myriad of confusing regulatory and tax laws one in that industry has to follow and how under a microscope they are under.
Suicide methods vary by country and culture and also by gender. Men have a higher percentage of suicide by gunshot, hanging and jumping where women have a higher percentage of intentional drug overdose and poisoning: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide#Methods
The leading method of suicide varies among countries. The leading methods in different regions include hanging, pesticide poisoning, and firearms.[82] These differences are believed to be in part due to availability of the different methods.[69] A review of 56 countries found that hanging was the most common method in most of the countries,[83] accounting for 53% of the male suicides and 39% of the female suicides.[84]
Worldwide, 30% of suicides are from pesticides. The use of this method, however, varies markedly from 4% in Europe to more than 50% in the Pacific region.[85] It is also common in Latin America due to easy access within the farming populations.[69] In many countries, drug overdoses account for approximately 60% of suicides among women and 30% among men.[86] Many are unplanned and occur during an acute period of ambivalence.[69] The death rate varies by method: firearms 80-90%, drowning 65-80%, hanging 60-85%, car exhaust 40-60%, jumping 35-60%, charcoal burning 40-50%, pesticides 6-75%, and medication overdose 1.5-4%.[69] The most common attempted methods of suicide differ from the most common successful methods; Up to 85% of attempts are via drug overdose in the developed world.[32]
In China, the consumption of pesticides is the most common method.[87] In Japan, self disembowelment known as seppuku or hara-kiri still occurs;[87] however, hanging is the most common.[88] Jumping to one's death is common in both Hong Kong and Singapore at 50% and 80% respectively.[69] In Switzerland, where nearly everyone owns a firearm, the most suicides are by hanging.[89] In the United States, 57% of suicides involve the use of firearms with this method being somewhat more common in men than women.[20] The next most common cause was hanging in males and self poisoning in females.[20] Together these methods comprised about 40% of U.S. suicides.[90]
Looking at this graph, it would seem that “falls”, i.e. jumping to one’s death is the 3rd most “popular” method of suicide overall after firearms and suffocation (i.e. hanging or self suffocation via various methods like car exhaust, gas, plastic bags, etc.).
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Suicide_methods.gif
Suicide methods also depend on what access a suicidal person has to a lethal means.
http://nypost.com/2014/03/22/whats-behind-epidemic-of-industry-deaths/
Six of the eight mysterious deaths have been from a building or in front of a train. Half of them were at work or en route.
“Our world has become so social — and the barriers of privacy have been [so] broken down. Perhaps that could be a reason for the public displays, especially for those in their 20s,” says says Carolyn Wolf, executive partner and director of the mental-health law practice at Abrams Fensterman in Midtown.
Alternatively, Dr. John Draper, project director of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, suggests it has more to do with access to means than anything else.
“If you live or work in a high-rise or have access at work to harmful items — like a gun — then that could be most lethal means available, without any further meaning to location.”
“Death by cop” is the ghetto way of offing yourself.
No way dentists and chiropractors are at the top. Thbey have zero work stress.
This banker sure didn’t think things through, IF it was suicide. The odds would be too great of a prolonged bleeding out and very painful. It’d be much easier to stick his head in the oven or take pills. The cops might want to check into if his gf stood to inherit anything or if she’s driving a new car and living it up on some island with no extradition.