Talk:Suicide attempt
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Economics paragraph needs to go to another wiki page
This paragraph does not belong on the failed suicide attempts page. It more properly belongs on a suicide attempts page, under a Motivations category. Cutting/pasting below:
Suicide has long been held to have partially economic motivations.[1] Marcotte (2003), in exploring economic motivations surrounding suicide attempts, looked at attempts made between 1991 and 1992 among a cohort of 5877 Americans. Using a model he developed, he showed a correlation between failed suicide attempts and subsequently higher average incomes, particularly in cases of "hard suicide" attempts that had a high probability of success but failed nonetheless.[2] Marcotte claims that this increase comes as a result of suicide attempts being cries for help, as they "suddenly have access to lots of resources—medical care, psychiatric attention, familial love and concern—that were previously expensive or unavailable."[3] However, the model does not actually show this as the reason,[4] nor does Marcotte convincingly demonstrate that the correlation is causative.[5]
References
- ^ Hamermesh, Daniel S; Soss, Neal M (1974), "An Economic Theory of Suicide", Journal of Political Economy, 82 (1): 83–98
- ^ Marcotte, David (2003), "The Economics of Suicide, Revisited", Southern Economic Journal, 69 (3): 628–643
- ^ Duhigg, Charles (Oct. 29, 2003), The Economics of Suicide, Slate
{{citation}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Chen, Joe; Choi, Yun Jeong; Mori, Kohta; Sawada, Yasuyuki; Sugano, Saki (2009), "Socio-Economic Studies on Suicide: A Survey" (PDF), Journal of Economics, 26 (2): 271–306
- ^ Cameron, Samuel (2005), "Economics of suicide", in Bowmaker, Simon W. (ed.), Economics Uncut: A Complete Guide to Life, Death and Misadventure (PDF), Edward Elgar, pp. 229–263
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 1000Faces (talk • contribs) 04:08, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
Make the "A" in attempt Upper Case
The title says it all. I can't edit the page title. LakesideMiners (talk) 20:20, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
- See Wikipedia:Titling in sentence case as to why it is how it is. Unless you have reasoning for why 'Suicide attempt' is a proper noun? Inkybinky3 (talk) 07:03, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
The word "commit"
I suggest replacing the word commit with an alternative, my suggested edit was reverted. To commit suicide is an outdated legal term, and the modern consensus is that it is no longer appropriate as it is not a crime to attempt to, or succeed in, suicide. MrMarmite (talk) 09:47, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
- The first definition of the verb "commit" in the Oxford Lexico online dictionary: "1 Carry out or perpetrate (a mistake, crime, or immoral act)." It's the appropriate term, not an outdated legal term. It would sound very awkward to "perpetrate suicide." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nicmart (talk • contribs)
Why the most obvious not here?
How many percent try suicide? Why is that not in the page? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Razzham (talk • contribs) 13:59, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
Incomprehensible
This is gobbledygook: "Suicide attempts include parasuicide such as self-harm where there is no actual intention of killing oneself." Suicide that consists of not trying to kill oneself. Nicmart (talk) 05:42, 14 April 2020 (UTC)