* kierkegaard wrote on suicide
* Albert Camus: "Deciding whether or not life is worth living is to answer the fundamental   question in philosophy."
* second cause of death among college students
* women are 2-3 times likely to attempt suicide, men 4 times as likely to complete it
  2/3 violent methods in men
  1/3 in women
* 40 % of all suicides are in China
* women depression rates are 2 times that of men
* 30K of suicide  in US per year
* 1 in 4 leave notes. Most are banal
* Esenin slashed his wrists, wrote a poem with his blood then hanged
  himself. One guy threatened to haunt the place. Smarter schizophrenics
  are more likely to kill themselves. Virginia Woolf killed herself.
* "The list of my enemies is very flattering"
* to me pregnancy is protective
  against suicide, pregnancy and 1st year after 3-8 times diminished
  suicide rate
* 10% of schizophrenics die by suicide, 1 in 4 sch. suffer from
  serious depression. 30-40% of schiz attemt suicide at least once
* eating disorders do mot seem to increase suicide rate, OCD not
  affected, borderlone personality disprder 3/4.  attempt suicide 5-10
  succeed, anti-social personality disorder familial disorders
* 10% of police shooting fatalities in US are suicide-by-cop
* 60% of suicides 8n US is by firearm

* immigrants use preferred suicide methods of their native country
  until they assimilate.  people have incorrect ideas about deadliness
  of particular means of suicide - underestimate guns, overestimate
  pills, drawn to places reported in the media, copycat suicides

* 5-10% of suicides are in psych hospitals
  1/3-1/2 of homeless are severely mentally ill, Kennedy's de-institutionalization act
* scientists,composers, top businessmen are 5 times more
  likely to kill themselves than general population
  more than half of suicide attempts occur after premeditation period <5mins
  more than half of 6-11yods believe death is reversible
* china: in 1990 180K chinese suicides
  women comitted more than 50% of world female suicides
* suicides peak 7am-4pm, on Monday, in May-June
* women psychiatrists, but not teachers, have 3-5 times suicide rate
  of general population
* perestroika 1984-88 suicide rate fell by 35%