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Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences by Geo Stone

Suicide and Attempted Suicide: Methods and Consequences Geo Stone ebook
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0786709405, 9780786709403
Page: 480
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Suicide by train impact has resulted in a 90% death rate, making it one of the most fatal suicide methods. Men used more violent methods such as hanging and women softer methods such as medication overdose. But the impacts of barriers on suicides at one location are not representative of what we can expect of means restriction (limiting access to methods of suicide) more generally, as a suicide prevention measure. The Globe's checks indicate that the most dominant method being used in the southern sector was by hanging and poisoning while in the northern sector it was by fire arm and hanging. Suicide methods can be classified according to two modes of interrupting one's life processes: physical or This method, in most cases, results in severe consequences if the attempt fails, such as paralysis and bone fractures. In fact, research into barriers and . The argument of brainwash, unbalance psychology, impact of personal conditions and blind loyalty are carrying far lesser weight because a politically motivated suicide is a public statement to the immediate society aiming to alter its consciousness (or lack of it). A Houston study found that for 24 percent of suicide survivors, less than five minutes elapsed between their decision and the attempt. Committing suicide in Ghana or attempting to commit suicide in Ghana is a criminal act and some Civil Society Organisations are calling for the decriminalisation of suicide so that persons who have the intention to commit or are contemplating the act can come forward for help. In a study on immolation in Buddhist states between1963 and 2003, Biggs (2005) concludes Venerable Duc was the single most inspiration for some 3000 such acts and attempts. A suicide method is any means by which one or more persons purposely commit, or attempt to commit, suicide — that is, intentionally cause one's own death. More men than women completed suicide, more women than men attempted suicide. The difficulty is these are very hard to quantify and so convincing policy makers that working on these qualities of a community will make an impact in the suicide rate is a very complex endeavour.