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- Deaths
- 727,000 / 1.1% of deaths (2021)
- Frequency
- 8.9 per 100,000 per year (2021)
- Prevention
- Limiting access to methods of suicide, treating mental disorders and substance misuse, careful media reporting about suicide, improving social and economic conditions, improving…
- Risk factors
- Depression, previous attempts, bipolar disorder, autism, bereavement, breakups, divorce, loneliness, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, alcoholism, chronic…
- Specialty
- Psychiatry, clinical psychology, clinical social work
- Usual onset
- 15–30 and 70+ years old
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Overview
- Death
- Mental disorders Mental disorder
- Neurodevelopmental disorders Neurodevelopmental disorder
- Physical disorders Physical disorder
- Substance abuse
- Impulsivity
- Stress Stress (biology)
- Academic difficulties Suicide in colleges in the United States
- Relationship Interpersonal relationship
- Breakups Breakup
- Divorces Divorce
- Harassment
- Bullying
- Suicide prevention
- Media Mass media
- Psychotherapy
- Dialectical behaviour therapy
- Cognitive behavioural therapy Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Crisis hotlines Crisis hotline
- 988 988 (telephone number)
- North America
- 13 11 14 Lifeline (crisis support service)
- Australia
- Higher among men Gender differences in suicide
- Developing world
- Developed world
- Western world
- Suicide attempts Suicide attempt
- Method of suicide Suicide methods
- Assisted suicide
Definitions
- Self-injury Self-harm
- Voluntary euthanasia
- Suicidal ideation
- Murder–suicide
- Egoistic suicide Suicide (Durkheim book)
- Destigmatizing terminology Social stigma
- American Psychological Association
- Frame Framing (social sciences)
- Associated Press Stylebook
- Guardian The Guardian
- Observer The Observer
- Deprecate
- CNN
- Sinful Sin
- Morally
- Complex Complex suicide
Pathophysiology
- Pathophysiology
- Brain-derived neurotrophic factor
- Obsessive–compulsive disorder
- Post-mortem Autopsy
- Hippocampus
- Prefrontal cortex
- Serotonin
- Neurotransmitter
- 5-HT2A receptors 5-HT2A receptor
- 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid
- Cerebral spinal fluid
- Epigenetics
- Genetic expression
- Environmental factors Environmental factor
- DNA
Risk factors
- Psychological states Psychological state
- Nihilism
- Traumatic brain injury
- Socio-economic
- Discrimination
- Social cohesion
- Cluster Clustering (demographics)
- Pain tolerance
- Fear of death
- Air pollution
- Intense sunlight Sunlight intensity
- Sunlight duration Sunshine duration
- Hot weather Heat wave
- High altitude
- PM10
- Imitation
- Heritability
- Evolutionary Evolutionary psychology
- Inclusive fitness
- Adaptation
- Suicide note
- Copycat suicide
- Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Sorrows of Young Werther
- Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- The Magic Flute
- Chronic fatigue syndrome
- Hemodialysis
- HIV
- Systemic lupus erythematosus
Prevention
- Golden Gate Bridge
- Access to firearms Gun control
- Opioids
- Impulsive Impulsive (behavior)
- Mental health literacy
- Economic development
- Social connection
- World Suicide Prevention Day
- International Association for Suicide Prevention
- World Health Organization
- Purposelessness Meaning (existential)
- Anger
- Hopelessness Beck Hopelessness Scale
- Withdrawal Solitude
- Anxiety
- Recklessness Recklessness (psychology)
- Mood Mood (psychology)
- Psychometric tests
- Beck Depression Inventory
- Geriatric Depression Scale
- Intervention Intervention (counseling)
- Suicidal crisis Suicide crisis
Methods
- Hanging Suicide by hanging
- Pesticide poisoning
- Firearms Suicide by firearm
- Latin America
- Ambivalence
- Jumping Suicide by jumping from height
- Charcoal burning Charcoal-burning suicide
Epidemiology
- Increased in the United States Suicide in the United States
- Eastern Mediterranean
- South-East Asia Southeast Asia
- Lesbian
- Gay Gay men
- Bisexual Bisexuality
- Transgender
- Social stigmatisation Transgender inequality
- Trauma Trauma (medicine)
History
- Ancient Athens Classical Athens
- Ancient Rome
- Crime against the state Crimes against the state
- Aristotle
- Plato
- Gladiator
- Duke Žvelgaitis Žvelgaitis
- Pilėnai Castle Pilėnai
- Christian Europe
- Council of Arles (452)
- Devil Devil in Christianity
- Middle Ages
- Martyrs of Córdoba
- Louis XIV
- Renaissance
- John Donne
- Biathanatos
- Jesus
- Samson
- Saul
- Secularization
- Enlightenment Age of Enlightenment
- Christian views on suicide
- David Hume
- The Times
- Insanity
Society and culture
- Prescribed by Dutch law Euthanasia in the Netherlands
- Lausanne
- Suicide Act 1961
- Washington Washington (state)
- Oregon
- Aid and abet
- Northern Territory
- Malaysia
- Befrienders
- Augustine of Hippo
- Thomas Aquinas
- Immanuel Kant
- John Stuart Mill
- School of thought
- Jacob Appel Jacob M. Appel
- Subcultures Subculture
- Empire of Japan
- Allied Allies of World War II
- Pacific Theater Pacific Theater (World War II)
- Suicide in Japan
- Internet searches for information on suicide Suicide and the Internet
- Message boards Internet forum
- Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge
- Aokigahara Forest Aokigahara
- Beachy Head
- Toronto
- Bloor Street Viaduct
- Luminous Veil
- Eiffel Tower
- West Gate Bridge
Other species
- Salmonella
- Immune system
- Forelius pusillus
- Pea aphids Pea aphid
- Ladybug
- Altruism Altruism (biology)
- Autothysis
- Termites Termite
- Globitermes sulphureus
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Suicide | Deaths | 727,000 / 1.1% of deaths (2021) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Suicide | Frequency | 8.9 per 100,000 per year (2021) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Suicide | Prevention | Limiting access to methods of suicide, treating mental disorders and substance misuse, careful media reporting about suicide, improving social and economic conditions, improving… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Suicide | Risk factors | Depression, previous attempts, bipolar disorder, autism, bereavement, breakups, divorce, loneliness, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, alcoholism, chronic… | 1.00 | infobox |
| Suicide | Specialty | Psychiatry, clinical psychology, clinical social work | 1.00 | infobox |
| Suicide | Usual onset | 15–30 and 70+ years old | 1.00 | infobox |
| Suicide | is a | act of intentionally causing one's own death | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | third-leading cause of death among 15- to 29-year-olds globally | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | leading cause of early death for autistic people without co-occurring learning disabilities.Environmental exposuresSome environmental exposures | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | reasoned taking of one's own life | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | act of homicide followed within a week by suicide of the person who carried out the act.Mass suicides are often performed under social pressure where members give up autonomy to… | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | leading cause of early death for autistic people without co-occurring learning disabilities | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | tenth leading cause of death | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | 5th leading cause of death.An unofficial report estimated 5 | 0.90 | text |
| Suicide | is a | 1978 Jonestown mass murder/suicide in which 909 members of the Peoples Temple | 0.90 | text |
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