Why do the suicides I read in the news tend to be done by people in their late 20s/early 30s?

[Weebster]

What's significant about this age?

 

[jimmy7754]

I'm 32 and for me is unexpected death of a parent.. no return on my college education.. no hope financially for a stable future just full of worry.. and technically college just set me back to own any sort of house or property because I didn't capitalize on my investment.. getting up to my hobbies which led me to injuries.. body starts to hurt orthopedic injuries.. relationships failed.. not rich… middle class.. sad white boy

 

[IsThisTheEnd?]

I assume that older ctb aren't interesting.

 

[motel rooms]

 

[CommitSudoku]

Society probably views younger suicides as unusual still, also I think the number might have been increasing which could make some people notice it more. There's probably more unknown related to younger people dying, since people say things like, "they were young, why would they want to die? They had their whole life ahead of them" - youth can turn in to a bias. As for why people would want to die then, I think it's just a highly stressful time and sometimes you might realize earlier that you don't want a lifetime of what you're currently experiencing. But everyone has their own reasons.

 

[motel rooms]

Middle-aged men are more likely to actually die by suicide than anyone else.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

The younger the suicide was, the easier it is to get people to care.

 

[its-about-time]

Interesting how the top two age brackets are 45+ years old. I agree with what others have said- people mourn young people ending their life because the feel they still had a chance to get better. That's kind of depressing for the 45+ class that people see that age as no longer having so much of a chance. The news in my town doesn't cover suicides unless they're pretty public or sometimes for high school students.

 

[motel rooms]

The younger the suicide was, the easier it is to get people to care.

To care or pretend to care when it's too late to help.

 

[Fadeawaaaay]

Just imagine if Covid had killed millions of people under 25…

 

[Jred]

I feel that my early 20s were wasted. They should have been a time of enjoyment, while I built up something to be proud of in my 30s. I'm miserable approaching 30 and now there's a decade of wasted time of no happiness, I'm too tired to waste time trying to find happiness in my declining years.

 

[Weebster]

Middle-aged men are more likely to actually die by suicide than anyone else.

Why is it not talked about?

 

[motel rooms]

Why is it not talked about?

It's not shocking enough.

 

[Weebster]

It's not shocking enough.

Is it because everyone knows deep down life is shit so it's to be expected?

 

[ineedrope]

Well in my case personally I remember being 18 and thinking life would get better. I am turning 25 this year and it hasn't really gotten better at all. I assume for many others they feel the same, by the time you get to late 20's early 30's if you're still not enjoying life it's probably difficult to see how it would get better at this point.

 

[Weebster]

Well in my case personally I remember being 18 and thinking life would get better. I am turning 25 this year and it hasn't really gotten better at all. I assume for many others they feel the same, by the time you get to late 20's early 30's if you're still not enjoying life it's probably difficult to see how it would get better at this point.

Yeah :/

 

[FuneralCry]

I think that maybe a lot of people decide to leave this world at that age as they want to escape getting older. To me, there is nothing good about getting old and it is understandable wanting to escape a future filled with suffering.

Maybe a lot of younger people suicides are featured in the news as we live in an anti choice society that tries to force us to live and I guess a younger person committing suicide fits into the society delusional views on suicide, that it is something tragic and could have been prevented.

 

[WorthlessTrash]

Because people by this point realize that life sucks, or don't want to age.

 

[Weebster]

Because people by this point realize that life sucks, or don't want to age.

I'm noticing problems in my body that weren't issues in my 20s. The body is so weak and pathetic.

 

[woknows]

Middle-aged men are more likely to actually die by suicide than anyone else.

Frankly, women get more and better support. No wonder more men end up killing themselfs.

 

[Weebster]

Frankly, women get more and better support. No wonder more men end up killing themselfs.

Men are mistreated even though it's mostly men who work trades which are the jobs that keep society functioning on a foundational level.

 

[woknows]

And arranging your life is getting harder, housing costs are skyrocketing, while wages are stagnating. Maybe more people are getting tired of this rats race that inevitably ends with death.

 

[kiuya]

Frankly, women get more and better support. No wonder more men end up killing themselfs.

Women actually try suicide more often, it's just that men choose more violent ways to go like shooting yourself on the head, ramming into traffic etc. when women prefer poisons and more peaceful methods which are prone to error.

 

[woknows]

And arranging your life is getting harder, housing costs are skyrocketing, while wages are stagnating.

Women actually try suicide more often, it's just that men choose more violent ways to go like shooting yourself on the head, ramming into traffic etc. when women prefer poisons and more peaceful methods.

One can easily turn this one around. Women tend to choose ineffective methods, cause it is a cry for help. Cause they expect some kind of help. While men already know they are fucked and no help will be provided.

Also, this gender difference is not a universal truth, and guess what, in places that are not so profeminist as the west has become. The gender difference is greatly diminished. Hence, obviously, there is something detrimental to men in western society.

 

[quix77]

And arranging your life is getting harder, housing costs are skyrocketing, while wages are stagnating. Maybe more people are getting tired of this rats race that inevitably ends with death.

This!

I am 45 years old. And the way inflation is going - my savings would be totally inadequate. I would literally need to keep working till the day i die.

If i fall sick (sicker than i am) and cannot work at all - it would be a matter of time before I wound up on the streets.

I doubt social security will be solvent in 20 years.

So yeah - no point slaving away making someone else shit loads of money, only to ctb out of desperation. Better to go out now on my own terms.

 

[Weebster]

And arranging your life is getting harder, housing costs are skyrocketing, while wages are stagnating. Maybe more people are getting tired of this rats race that inevitably ends with death.

We should all skip to the end. Fuck all of this

This!

I am 45 years old. And the way inflation is going - my savings would be totally inadequate. I would literally need to keep working till the day i die.

If i fall sick (sicker than i am) and cannot work at all - it would be a matter of time before I wound up on the streets.

I doubt social security will be solvent in 20 years.

So yeah - no point slaving away making someone else shit loads of money, only to ctb out of desperation. Better to go out now on my own terms.

The suicide rate will skyrocket when Social security is gone.

 

[kiuya]

And arranging your life is getting harder, housing costs are skyrocketing, while wages are stagnating.

One can easily turn this one around. Women tend to choose ineffective methods, cause it is a cry for help. Cause they expect some kind of help. While men already know they are fucked and no help will be provided.

Also, this gender difference is not a universal truth, and guess what, in places that are not so profeminist as the west has become. The gender difference is greatly diminished. Hence, obviously, there is something detrimental to men in western society.

We can take a place that is one of the most misogynistic and antifeminist developed country in the world: Japan. Women still attempt suicide more than men.
I would also argue that most of suicides aren't a "call for help". You can call literally every suicide attempt that if you want to, but if someone wants help they usually tell someone they trust that they want to die. Of course there's cases where trying suicide is the final cry for help but I'm pretty assured that they're in the minority.

 

[woknows]

We can take a place that is one of the most misogynistic and antifeminist developed country in the world: Japan. Women still attempt suicide more than men.
I would also argue that most of suicides aren't a "call for help". You can call literally every suicide attempt that if you want to, but if someone wants help they usually tell someone they trust that they want to die. Of course there's cases where trying suicide is the final cry for help but I'm pretty assured that they're in the minority.

Serious researchers agree with my conclusion. Go figure.

 

[TheStateofCaliforni]

A cross-national study on gender differences in suicide intent - BMC Psychiatry

Background Suicide accounts for over 58,000 deaths in Europe per annum, where suicide attempts are estimated to be 20 times higher. Males have been found to have a disproportionately lower rate of suicide attempts and an excessively higher rate of suicides compared to females. The gender...

bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com

This study (which is a large study of European suicide's) comes to the conclusion that 57% of male suicides attempts were "serious suicide attempts", where as only 48.6% of female suicide attempts were SSA's (serious suicide attempts). But over the period of time there were still 1507 SSA's by women, compared to only 1206 by men, just due to women attempting suicide much more than men.

edit: this study is only for attempted suicides with non-fatal outcomes and excludes 'those who engaged in habitual self-harm were excluded' for some reason. Men do seem to commit suicide successfully much more often.

Serious researchers agree with my conclusion. Go figure.

 

[woknows]

A cross-national study on gender differences in suicide intent - BMC Psychiatry

Background Suicide accounts for over 58,000 deaths in Europe per annum, where suicide attempts are estimated to be 20 times higher. Males have been found to have a disproportionately lower rate of suicide attempts and an excessively higher rate of suicides compared to females. The gender...

bmcpsychiatry.biomedcentral.com

This study (which is a large study of European suicide's) comes to the conclusion that 57% of male suicides attempts were "serious suicide attempts", where as only 48.6% of female suicide attempts were SSA's (serious suicide attempts). But over the period of time there were still 1507 SSA's by women, compared to only 1206 by men, just due to women attempting suicide much more than men.

edit: this study is only for attempted suicides with non-fatal outcomes and excludes 'those who engaged in habitual self-harm were excluded' for some reason. Men do seem to commit suicide successfully much more often.

The quote from the study obviously supports my statement, unsurprisingly I might add:

The results presented above support previous evidence showing that males have a higher intent to die than females. This evokes questions as to why this would be the case. Some theorists contend that females attempt suicide earlier in the evolution of psychiatric morbidity than males, which might represent less of an intention to die, and more a desire to communicate distress or change their social environment.