Suicide

What I have learned about suicide while reading my Deviant Behavior book:

1.  In previous generations, more likely in urban areas than rural. Currently, that's reversed. 

2.  More likely when an individual feels need to be independent and not community-based. 

3. Attempters use methods (poison, overdosing, gases, etc.) that often anticipate or hope for an escape.

4.  Men more likely than women to commit suicide. Women attempt much more than men.

5.  Divorced commit more often than married, and parents less than those without children. 

6.  The rich are more likely to commit suicide than the poor.

What does this tell me?

1.  As our world has become more globalized via the media, the rural ceases to be rural anymore - ceases to be community-oriented. 

2.  Community = health.

3. & 4.  Women attempt (not committing to the most lethal option) and therefore, want to be rescued. 

5.  The more needed, loved, depended upon, or committed one is, the less likely. 

6.  Money can't buy you love.

The book states: 

"All this has been taken to suggest that the more and stronger ties we have to other people, the less likely we are to escape our problems through suicide."