Posted by Andre Allard on June 5, 2000, at 14:05:37
In reply to Ratios--women to men, posted by Lurker on June 3, 2000, at 6:25:20
Women do attempt suicide more often then men do. Most of the time though, they do not succeed because they attempt an overdose. Men tend to resort to more harmful ways of ending their lives like jumping off a building or blowing their heads off. An overdose attempt leaves room for failure, while blowing your head into a million peices usually does the trick.
One night, while in the midst of severe depression, in an attempt to self medicate myself with copious amounts of drugs, I almost did overdose. Luckily I ran out of lorazepam, codiene, aspirin and clonazepam or else I would be in the ground right now.
poster:Andre Allard
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