Some of this tendency stems from his problems finding appropriate venues for medicides and from his responsible attempts to make sure patients have explored the range of treatments. But much of it seems to have come out of Dr. K's pleasure in the process, in playing God. Kevorkian's experience with men is mirrored in suicide records from the National Center for Health Statistics. Women attempt suicide three times more often than men, according to the center. They blow their heads off and throw themselves off buildings.
Women tend to take overdoses of pills.
Some social scientists have even noticed an erotic component to aging women's fantasies and unconscious feelings about death. In men's imagery, death is more often represented by big, all-encompassing things like the ocean. Hence the basis of the Kevorkian charm. It's all I could do. Though she didn't have a full-time career, she raised three successful sons, climbed Mount Hood, went hang gliding and generally behaved like a cyclone of energy, according to neighbors.