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Women aren't the demographic with a suicide problem in that age range...

But my compassion is gone after the election.

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If all it takes to destroy your compassion is losing an election, you never cared to begin with. You only claimed you did.

Please, I beg you not to let go of your compassion for human life. These people obviously had troubled lives and went through great amounts of pain. There is a time and a place for debates about gender equality, but I don't feel like it is helping anyone to do it here. With that said I understand your frustration and sincerely wish you well.

Risk of death by suicide is much higher in that group of women than it is in younger women. Read the fucking CDC numbers.

One suspects GP was pointing out that late-middle-age men die by suicide more often than late-middle-age women.

...but women in that age group have more suicidal thoughts, and have more suicidal behaviour (planning, preparation), and have more suicide attempts than men.

If women switch to more lethal methods - which is what this article says is happening - they'll soon overtake men in numbers of deaths, especially in this age group.

It really would be news, if any cohort of women had a higher suicide rate than the same cohort of men. That isn't the case, however, and men's rates are ticking up just like women's. TFA offered no evidence for the "more lethal methods" claim.

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