[Chapita]

Men, generally, commit suicide by a shot to the head [women to the chest]. Unusual suicide!

[txradioguy]

Ok. I just went and read that whole Slate article on Hack. And then took my links for his website and Ed Offley's "Soldiers For The Truth.org" out of my favorites. I admit, he had me fooled.

[yankeedame]

Men, generally, commit suicide by a shot to the head [women to the chest]. Unusual suicide!

Wrong. Women almost never, ever commit suicide with a gun.

We women are vain creatures to the very end. Even in voluntary death we do not want to damage our features. Women will, instead, cut their wrists; use gas (in the garage w/ the motor running, or the kitchen with the gas stove unlit); take poison; take sleeping pills; mix medicine-and-alcohol (Dave Berry's mother committed suicide this way), or leap from a great height.

It's also curious that the Admiral chose to shoot himself in the chest-- an awkard and uncertain way to go about it: You must push the trigger away from you, and you must use your thumb(s).