Rikunarita-ORG/Wikinium huggingface dataset:
# Suicide

| Suicide |
| --- |
|  |
| *The Suicide* by Édouard Manet |
| Specialty | Psychiatry |
| Usual onset | >70 den 15–30 years old |
| Causes | Hanging, pesticide poisoning, firearms |
| Risk factors | Depression, bipolar disorder, autism, schizophrenia, personality disorders, anxiety disorders, alcoholism, substance abuse |
| Prevention | Limiting access to methods of suicide, treating mental disorders den substance misuse, careful media wey dey report about suicide, improving social den economic conditions |
| Frequency | 12 per 100,000 per year |
| Deaths | 793,000 / 1.5% of deaths (2016) |

**Suicide** be de act of intentionally wey dey cause one ein own death.

Risk factors for suicide dey include mental disorders, physical disorders, den substance abuse. Sam suicides be impulsive acts wey be driven by stress (such as from financial anaa academic difficulties), relationship problems (such as breakups anaa divorces), anaa harassment den bullying. Those wey na dem previously attempt suicide be at a higher risk for future attempts. Effective suicide prevention efforts dey include limiting access to methods of suicide such as firearms, drugs, den poisons; treating mental disorders den substance abuse; careful media reporting about suicide; improving economic conditions; den dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT). Although crisis hotlines, like 988 insyd North America den 13 11 14 insyd Australia, be common resources, na dem no study dema effectiveness well.

Suicide be de 10th leading cause of death worldwide, wey dey account for approximately 1.5% of total deaths. Insyd a given year, dis be roughly 12 per 100,000 people. Though na suicides result insyd 828,000 deaths globally insyd 2015, an increase from 712,000 deaths insyd 1990, na de age-standardized death rate decrease by 23.3%. By gender, suicide rates be generally higher among men dan women, wey dey range from 1.5 times higher insyd de developing world to 3.5 times higher insyd de developed world; insyd de Western world, non-fatal suicide attempts be more common among young people den women. Suicide be generally most common among those over de age of 70; however, insyd certain countries, those aged between 15 den 30 be at de highest risk. Na Europe get de highest rates of suicide by region insyd 2015. Der be an estimated 10 to 20 million non-fatal attempted suicides every year. Non-fatal suicide attempts fi lead to injury den long-term disabilities. De most commonly adopted method of suicide dey vary from country to country wey e be partly related to de availability of effective means. Assisted suicide, sam times dem do am wen a person dey insyd severe pain anaa dey face an imminent death, be legal insyd chaw countries den dey increase insyd numbers.

## Read further

* Gambotto A (2004). *The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide*. Australia: Broken Ankle Books. ISBN 978-0-9751075-1-5.
* Goeschel C (2009). *Suicide in Nazi Germany*. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-953256-8.

* *Preventing suicide: a global imperative* (PDF). WHO. 2014. ISBN 978-92-4-156477-9.
* Freakonomics podcast: The Suicide Paradox