I call shenanigans. Women are happier than men because of a lower suicide rate? Even though men do have a higher suicide rate, women have a higher ATTEMPTED suicide rate, by a ratio of 3:1. Men just happen to be better at getting the job done.
Besides, men have always had harder lives, being the ones responsible for the well-being of the family unit... women have always taken the easier, less stressful path in everything, allowing men to take on all the pressures in life. Women have no NEED to commit suicide, for them it is all part of the "pay attention to me, I'm important, I need attention.. NOW!!!".. it just so happens that occasionally in their inappropriate attempts at attention, they occasionally take it too far.
I call shenanigans. Women are happier than men because of a lower suicide rate? Even though men do have a higher suicide rate, women have a higher ATTEMPTED suicide rate, by a ratio of 3:1. Men just happen to be better at getting the job done.
Well, that seems to be what Shabadu is arguing (if you can extract any meaning from his post ) There may be some truth to that, given that those who threaten to commit suicide (or say they are considering it) tend to be begging for attention. It's the ones that don't tell anyone that are serious.
I tend to agree with Diddly about the serious ones. My father's cousin told nobody and then one day his wife came home and there was a manila folder on the garage door saying to call 911. He had planned everything, life insurance, funeral, everything... EXCEPT the fact that his wife would look in the garage to see that he had shot himself in the heart... NOR did he plan on the carnage his action wrought upon his three children.
Anyway, stating that men are the weaker sex judging by our life expectancy is a little spurious. Strength can be measured in so many ways, physical, character, emotional... The fact that men have lower life expectancy is mostly due to men being greater risk takers, certainly insurance rates for people aged under 25 bear this out (A lot higher for males than females). But, then the article needed to draw attention to itself and did so in an almost fraudulent way.
Well I WAS being facetious in my post, but many suicide attempts ARE a cry for attention - both men and women use suicide threats to garner attention from the various people in their lives (or the various people they WANT to be part of their lives...). As it so happens, men tend to be more likely to commit to their course of action (as Diddly mentioned in the 3:1 statistic).. and no I didn't pull this info out of a "car magazine", it was a chapter in the psychopathology course I took in university many MANY years ago (the ONE course I did well in because I actually paid attention).
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) There may be some truth to that, given that those who threaten to commit suicide (or say they are considering it) tend to be begging for attention. It's the ones that don't tell anyone that are serious.
