First I heard of this. First Bali, now this. The world is going to pot.
Pot? Did you say pot? ;)
It is certainly not encouraging.
"The world is going to pot."
And has been for at least the last 4000 years... There is nothing new under the sun. Or as we say in the USAF, "same stuff, different day." (admittedly, we usually used a slightly different word for "stuff" but I'm I'm trying to clean up my act, since I am now working with children, rather than young airmen."
U.S. Suicide Statistics (2001)
Suicide Methods
Rate Per
Number 100,000 % of Total
Firearms..................16,869........5.9.........55.1
All Other Methods.........13,753........4.8.........49.9
Hanging or Suffocation.....6,198........2.2.........20.2
Poisoning..................5,191........1.8.........17.0
Falls........................651........0.2..........2.1
Cutting / Pieercing..........458........0.2..........1.5
Drowning.....................339........0.1..........1.1
Fire.........................147........0.1..........0.5
The list includes 97.5% of all suicides. Suicide by bomb can be no more than 2.5%. I see suicide by refusing medical treatment is not in the list and probably is most of the remaining 2.5%