in light of http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/05/31/in-search-of-missing-us-suicides/ … I thought people might be interested in some historical US suicide statspic.twitter.com/gt89Kp44H2
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efficacy of coercive means is a separate question from ethics of them but evidence for even the former here is weak
anyway I agree with @slatestarcodex’s ultimate takeaway but for about 40 different reasonspic.twitter.com/cY1xOBIuXI
I think there are five main determinants of suicide: age, race, gender, extreme suffering (endogenous or environmental), and access to means
(also a sixth, lack of effective palliation, hi drug war)
Means substitution is a fascinating question but it’s easy to get caught up looking under the streetlight of modern cases, ignoring history
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