Dying in Silence: Evidence of concealing the actual suicide rate for men?

C0CKPUNCHER · 2012-09-16T13:54:01+00:00

It is incredibly annoying how people seem to assume suicide 'just happens' they don't imagine the dead person has been victimized, they just assume the dead person made a bad decision, even though it is incredibly hard to override your innate fear of death to actually go through jumping off a bridge, slitting your wrists etc.

Even the mods here think male suicide is discrimination because less is spent on it, not because it occurs.

dumbguyscene28 · 2012-09-16T14:30:49+00:00

He brings up a fair point about some 'traffic accidents' being suicides. When I was 13-14 my father was hospitalized for, as I was told, being ran off the road by a drunk driver and hitting a tree. I learned years later he was trying to kill himself.

dumbguyscene28 · 2012-09-16T19:20:20+00:00

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DavidByron · 2012-09-16T17:07:06+00:00

Actual suicides are often concealed out of false respect for the relatives. This happens for both sexes but men tend to kill themselves in ways that are more easily described as accident. The get drunk and drive a car into a solid object at speed sort of thing, or in general get drunk and kill yourself doing something dangerous. Women tend to prefer using poison. It's harder to dismiss poison as an accident instead of a suicide.

Still a gunshot to the head is also hard to pass off as an accident and so I don't think that this effect would mess up the figures all that much.

Title	Dying in Silence: Evidence of concealing the actual suicide rate for men?
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Date	September 16, 2012 1:11 PM UTC (13 years ago)
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