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From: dragon@lll-crg.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: success rates
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Date: Mon, 29-Oct-84 16:28:47 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 29 16:28:47 1984
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Last I heard, about three times as many womn as men try, and about three 
times as many men as women succeed.  Most of the stuff I've read also claims
that roughly 80% of the people who try to kill themselves don't really want 
to (as determined by interviews by doctors afterwards, I suppose).  Maybe
these two things are related.  Do women tend to communicate in less direct
ways than men?  (Women aren't "supposed" to be assertive, though that's
been changing in recent years.  Have the statistics quoted above also been 
changing recently?)

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