The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills

Re:The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills by esthlos on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:04AM (#9537068)

I'd like to offer a different perspective.

Suicide is a violent crime, the killing of a human being.

Now, if we believe Wikipedia, then around 90% of homicides in the US will be committed by males. It seems reasonable that the male-female ratio should be about the same in the UK.

Then a 0.8 ratio of male to female suicides could be accounted for by the increased male homicide rate alone.

The Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime

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Re:The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills by sukilot on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @03:25AM (#9537335)

For whatever reason, men tend to choose more lethal forms of self harm (guns, cars) than women (cutting, pills)

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Re:The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills by lmz on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @04:51AM (#9537607)

Maybe it's that gap in STEM education we hear about that leads to women being unable to choose properly lethal methods.

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Re:The male suicides: how social perfectionism kills by jongraehl on Thursday May 14, 2015 @03:04PM (#9546921)

Perhaps men access certain modes of physical violence (guns?) more easily, but how are the psychological states of murder and suicide related at all? I understand amok/revenge murder-suicides but most suicides aren't that. "Violent crime" doesn't seem like a useful way to carve up reality here.

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