#Culture
In
the United States, the number of those aged 45-59 who commit suicide has been
increasing for a few years. The data shows that men commit suicide about 4
times as often as women do. Even though most studies show that women are more
likely to be depressed and to have suicidal thoughts, why do more men than
women kill themselves?
The
attitude of the depression between men and women is just different, says Lisa
Martin and Harold Neighbors of the University of Michigan and Derek Griffith of
Vanderbilt University. Men tend to be “anger attacks/aggression, irritability,
substance abuse and risk-taking behaviors”, but women are crying or feel sad.
According to the study, 3.9 percent of women have suicidal thoughts against 3.5
percent of men and 1 percent of both sexes actually made a suicide plan. This
shows that both men and women have the same attitude for the suicide, but the
methods of suicide are different. Men tend to choose firearms or hanging and
women tend to choose poisoning, which has a higher survival rate than using
firearms or hanging. Poisoning also has more chance of survival, but it hasn’t been
discovered why men choose more dangerous tools than women do.
