Joan Warmbold wrote: > Whoa Chris, please read the entire article. The main thesis is that there > are two types of suicides, one that is passion-driven as distinct from > those that are more calculated and premeditated
So, one develops a tendentious theory about suicide that "justifies" selecting just the data that confirms one's theory about bridge barriers, and excluding all other data. Nice. > > Therefore, it behooves us to remove as an option fast and deadly ways out > as those options are dominated by people who are not all that messed up > but simply going through a very rough time. If this theory of suicide were true, and if anyone in the US really wanted to eliminate ways of committing suicide impulsively, then figuring out a way to undermine the political influence of the NRA would do orders of magnitude more good than building bridge barriers. "In the United States, jumping is among the least common methods of committing suicide (less than 2% of all reported suicides in the United States for 2005).... In the United States, firearms remain the most common method of suicide, accounting for 53.7% of all suicides committed during 2003." (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_methods follow the footnotes for more info) Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=3649 or send a blank email to leave-3649-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
