They are more likely to take a fatal overdose, or use a handgun. I don’t have statistics for upper-class men in the Western world, but an Indian study of attempted suicide noted that: “Finding showed that there are no significant relationships between sex, age, marital status, frequency of attempted suicide and their social class. But there is significant relationship between methods of suicide and social class.”
In other words, when you stated “this is not a common way for privileged men to kill themselves,” you made it up.
Well, this happened in London, so no handguns allowed.
He was a Brit!
Lousy medical system.
He couldn’t get a scrip.
And a handgun in London?