1. Mikaela, November 30, 2009:

   Actually, men do commit suicide at a higher rate than women by a margin of 4 to 1 in the US. The conventional explaination is that when women threaten/attempt suicide it is to gain attention. Men don’t threaten suicide they simply do it.

2. Robert B, November 30, 2009:

   I do have to agree with you on that and here are my thougts on suicide.
   Women process their experiences with friends. They discuss their feelings, seek feedback and take advice before doing or attempting suicide. Women are much more likely to tell a physician how they feel and cooperate in the prescribed treatment. As a result, women get better treatment for their depression.”
   That treatment may help protect them from suicide, but there is more to it. The approach to problem-solving is what lands a woman in a psychiatrist’s office in the first place. And that approach may be keeping female suicide rates lower than those of men.
   There are roughly 30,000 suicides in the United States each year, and three-fourths of those are men. But the number of attempted suicides is at least 10 times that, and even that estimate may be low because many suicide attempts are euphemistically classified as lacerations or accidental poisonings when patients receive treatment in hospital emergency rooms.
   Although suicide rates are lower among women, women lead men two to one in suicide attempts. So, at least 200,000 women are involved in suicide attempts annually. But attempted suicide most often is not an attempt to actually end one’s life. Its purpose, is to survive with changed circumstances.
   An attempted suicide is not really an attempt at suicide in about 95 percent of cases. It is a different phenomenon. It’s most often an effort to bring someone’s attention, dramatically, to a problem that the individual feels needs to be solved. Suicide contains a solution in itself by taking one life with out regards to the others left behind.
   In attempted suicide, both men and women tend to use methods that allow for second thoughts or rescue. Women intend to survive, they choose a slowly effective, or ineffective, means such as an overdose of sleeping pills. Men contrasts to the all-or-nothing means like gunshots or hanging used by actual suicides.
   In the past, researchers who looked at the high rate of attempted suicide in women concluded that women were just not as efficient as men at taking their own lives. However, even as the number of women using the most lethal means increases, the suicide rate in women has slowly declined.
   So it really goes back to the same thing — that women, when they intend to do it, can be just as effective as men in committing suicide.
   Cognitive differences, women are less inclined to commit suicide because their thinking is more inclusive. While a man might tend to throw aside seemingly peripheral issues to get to the core of a problem, a woman might take more things into account. She may continue to seek input and process problems long after the point where men decide on a course of action.
   A woman will consider not just her feelings but also the feelings of others — her family, the children, even acquaintances, and how those people will be affected by a decision like suicide. A man is much less likely to take those things into account. He makes his decision, and it’s about him, so he doesn’t feel the need to share it with anyone else.
   But before they ever get to the point of considering suicide, women are much more likely to seek help with their problems. The classic example is asking for directions when driving. Many men refuse to do that, perhaps seeing it as an admission of weakness. They believe they are supposed to be competent in all areas. Because they are not, they are at risk. Women, on the other hand, are much more likely to seek advice and take it.
   I hope this helps.

3. Kaya M, November 30, 2009:

   Because of rejection Ive known 4 people whove commited suicide in my life and 3 of them were for women.

4. Eric L, November 30, 2009:

   I think its the other way around. Women tend to turn anger inward, men tend to turn it outward. But you could always use the point that men have to deal with women, which sometimes is enough to make them want to jump right off the roof.

5. billgoat, November 30, 2009:

   Men commit suicide more than women, because men are conditioned to be defenders and providers. They are taught real men don’t cry, to talk about your problems that you can not cope with is a sign of weakness. Everything is bottled up for years until it takes it’s toll. when all is lost suicide seems an option. They fell they have failed everyone and failed as a man.

6. BBQ MAN, November 30, 2009:

   Men do commit suicide more than women. Women attempt more but use means that are less deadly like pills and often survive, while a man is more likely to take a shotgun to his head. I would think a man would be more likely to commit suicide because…..”Greater social stigma against male depression and a lack of social networks of support and help with depression is often identified as a key reason for men’s disproportionately higher level of suicides, since suicide as a “cry for help” is not seen as an equally viable option by men. Typically males die from suicide 3 to 4 times as often as females, and not unusually 5 or more times as often”~Wikipeiia

7. Mushroom Mystic, November 30, 2009:

   I think because men have alot going on in their lives..work, the house, the kids..women stay at home reading womens weekly

8. Huh?, November 30, 2009:

   I took a sociology class and one day we were talking about this topic. More men commit suicide, your right but more women attempt to commit suicide more than men. I guess just more men follow through with it and actually do kill themselves than women.

9. starkizz, November 30, 2009:

   cause women drive men crazy

10. Dre D, November 30, 2009:

    Maybe because they read your bad grammar.
    Other than that, I dont know.

11. Andrew M, November 30, 2009:

    Because we are taught that man has to do everything and if your not a tough man or a boring beer drinker and hang out with friends that you are nothing but a loser. I’ve attempted suicide because I was on drugs and I split up with this girl I really liked so teenager angst is another reason. Plus it’s the easy road out instead of suffering to get what you want a quick death and it’ll all be forgotten.

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