Factors related to suicide via firearms and hanging and leaving of suicide notes.

Abstract

One of the common causes of unnatural death for men is suicide. The intent of the current research is to add to the understanding of men’s suicides involving the two most common methods of suicide the use of firearm and hanging. As the results of this study show, identification of predictors of whether men kill themselves via fire arm or hanging suggest that younger men are more likely to use firearms and older men use hanging with prior consumption of drugs and alcohol. The only statistically significant difference between men who do and do not leave suicide notes is that those who do are likely to be older and less likely to use a gun.