The subject of suicide causes a lot of controversy, misunderstandings and ambiguous opinions. In the history of mankind, many unusual cases of suicide were recorded and many different statistics were compiled.
Loneliness, fear, depression - and now the person is already standing on the cliff, thinking about making a fatal step. Many are confident that this topic will never touch them, but that's probably what all the people who decided on this terrible act thought. The following facts will make everyone think.
1. National "preferences"
Many will be surprised by the fact that in every country there are leading ways to say goodbye to your life. For example, in Russia the first place is hanging, and in Great Britain and Ireland - the use of poison, and in Italy, more often the choice is stopped by a shot from a firearm. In America, people choose all these methods, and still use gas poisoning.
2. Age matters
Think that more often, by their stupidity, suicide is completed by representatives of the younger generation, but in fact it is not. Studies have shown that a greater number of suicides occur in people of age. Most likely, this is due to the fact that comes the realization that life has developed unsuccessfully, or there is a fear of remaining alone.
3. Plea for help
As though many did not think, but suicide is not a spontaneous decision. According to statistics, about 90% of people thinking about death speak about their intentions, and 40% even turn to specialists for help. It is important not to miss such "cries of the soul", so that later it would not be too late.
4. Deplorable statistics
Thanks to medical and police reports, it was possible to establish that the ratio of suicides to murders is 3: 2.
5. Suicide with permission
An unusual fact concerns Ancient Greece, just imagine, before a person who thinks about suicide, had to apply to the Senate with a corresponding statement in which he had to describe all the reasons that prompted such a decision. If the authorities believed that the grounds are substantial, then the person was given permission to commit suicide, and even poison was given for free.
6. Unusual ways to get out of life
Tablets, hanging, vein opening - all this seems to some suicides to be banal, so they came up with something extraordinary. The doctors witnessed cases when people injected a vegetable oil into their veins, ate poisonous plants, tried to get drunk to death, and so on.
7. Difference in sex
The fact that women are a weak sex can be traced even in statistics related to suicides, so, they have three times as many unsuccessful attempts to commit suicide. As for men, they, on the contrary, have three times more attempts, which have become "successful."
8. Just so that it does not hurt
Few people suspect that most people who decide on suicide, do not want death, and getting rid of mental pain. It is easier for them to take a step into the unknown, because they do not see the way forward, and just want it to become easier.
9. Sly suicides
In the Middle Ages in Denmark, people who thought about suicide, went to the trick, trying to get to heaven. They decided to kill a man, and they were subject to the death penalty for that. Before the event, "x" they repented and prayed, which means they could count on a place in paradise. After a while, the authorities determined this scheme and also decided to outwit them, so instead of the death penalty, they appointed a life sentence.
10. Serotonin is responsible for everything
Scientists have conducted a number of studies that have proven the effect on the suicidal tendencies of serotonin - a hormone responsible for good mood, energy exchange and sexual behavior. It was concluded that the less serotonin in the body, the greater the likelihood of suicide.
11. Death every 2 minutes
What do you think, in which country are people most likely to decide on suicide? Unsurprisingly, this is China (one-fourth of the total number of suicides worldwide). Just imagine, such deplorable situations happen in this Asian country every two minutes and for a year the amount reaches 300 thousand. If you focus on the people, then the leader is Greenland, so 83 suicides per 100 thousand people.
12. Favorite places for suicides
In many cities there are places where people most often come to commit suicide. For example, in Sydney there is a precipice, from which a stunning view of the sea. There very often you can meet not tourists, but suicides. By the way, next to this place is the house of one man, who during his life could dissuade from the deplorable act of 160 people.
13. Mass Suicides
In history, there have been several cases of mass suicide, and in most cases they had a religious cause, or people decided to die so as not to get to the enemy and not to be seriously tortured.
14. Attempted suicide, which has benefited
There are reports when the desire to die eventually improved life, for example, in 1983, a case was recorded where a 19-year-old guy suffering from an obsessive disorder decided to shoot himself. As a result, the bullet was stuck in the anterior part of the left hemisphere and after its removal, he was cured of addiction, and his life changed for the better.
15. The famous suicide
Many facts were recorded, when famous personalities ended their lives. For example, in 1961, the writer Ernest Hemingway shot himself, because it seemed to him that someone was following him. What is most interesting, 10 years after his death, the FBI admitted that they really followed the writer.