These past 3 years I’ve known 3 women who have killed themselves - all of them via massive violence.
I understand men have a massive suicide problem, but I wonder if it is really worse than women.
Men tend to shoot themselves. Women take pills
Suicide rates for men are 3-4 times the rate for women. This has been roughly the same since statistics began to be kept. Women make more attempts, men more likely to complete the job. Older men at higher risk.
Is the method relevant? Dead is dead!
I understand men have a massive suicide problem, but I wonder if it is really worse than women.
Are you saying that you think that your subjective perception based upon your limited experience and tiny sample size might possibly trump nationwide statistics collected by professional statisticians and compiled on super-computers?
Regards,
1. A greater percentage of men than women commit suicide.
2. When women do kill themselves, they favor non-violent means, such as poison, or overdosing on sleeping pills or drugs or whatever.
3. Women are especially loathe to disfigure their faces. Even when facing death, they worry about their looks. Sticking a gun into your mouth and blowing your brains out is an overwhelmingly "guy thing."
It is.