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This is a little misleading. Men attempt suicide with more reliably lethal methods like firearms, whereas women attempt suicide using more unreliably lethal methods like overdosing on medication [1]. In fact, according to your link, women attempt suicide at a rate of 1.8x that of men [2].

[1]: https://www.verywellmind.com/gender-differences-in-suicide-m...

[2]: https://www.datocms-assets.com/12810/1649682186-14296_afsp_2...



>Men attempt suicide with more reliably lethal methods like firearms

And succeed ~4x times as much. In other words, GP is correct and you just needed to scratch an itch to nitpick.


The claim was that the number was due to cavalier attitudes, which is unsupported. I think the added context is important. Maybe you don’t, but others might. The drastic 3.8x number is more a function of the mode of suicide rather than cavalier attitudes, as far as I see it.




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