suicide, n.Trivia

More police officers and firefighters die from suicide than in line of duty

The number one cause of death for policemen is suicide, mainly due to the stress caused by the job itself.

Suicide method often has less to do with level of suicidal intent and more to do with ease of access to their chosen method

That sudden, strong urge we feel to jump off a high place is called The High Place Phenomenon or "The Call of the Void".

A man took five years to write a 1,905-page suicide note before killing himself in 2010.

Two people have fallen from the Empire State and lived when a gust of wind blew them onto a ledge one story below.

Suicide by Tylenol overdose dropped 43% in the UK after they changed the packaging from regular bottles to blister packs where you have to push out the pills one by one.

In ancient China, people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.

Abraham Lincoln refused to carry a knife because he suffered from depression, and feared he would harm himself

20% of Greenlanders have attempted suicide

Some ants explode themselves when their colonies are attacked, covering the assailant with deadly yellow goo.

India accounts for 40% of all female suicides

A vitamin D deficiency can make you suicidal, and deficiencies among adults is very common.

Lemmings do not commit mass suicide, it is a myth started by a 1958 Disney film which includes footage of producers throwing Lemmings off a cliff.

Vincent van Gogh shot himself in the chest, missed all vital organs, bud died 30 hours later

Robin Williams had Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's which [his wife believes] led him to kill himself. Depression apparently had very little to do with it.

In Japan, Committing suicide by train can result in your family being charged up to $12,000!

Vincent Van Gogh shot himself at the age of 37