its unusual for women to hang themselves...
Could argue women have no problem abusing a noose.
It is...
My thought is that the culture must utterly stink that people feel so strongly about getting out via this particular solution. The ridicule of pretty much everyone else must make it feel like an impossibility to go back to one’s roots while at the same time, the culture stinks.
And I would highly doubt that in the case of a woman over 50 it was auto erotic asphyxiation. “Suicide” hanging is an old technique used by the Yakuza, among others. Interestingly enough the DC Madam Deborah Palfrey, who threatened to open her appt books and expose the powerful, was found hanged in 2008. This was after telling others that if she died, it would not be a suicide. I don't buy most of these “suicides.”
Not really, woman and men hang almost equally.