This tea.

Because girls don't actually go through with the act.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender...ces_in_suicide

I don't know that that's the reason why. Even when committing murder, women are much more likely to pick poison as their weapon of choice than men are.

And according to the statistics I've seen, women are also (slightly) more likely to commit suicide by falling than men are, a method I wouldn't think would lead to a very "pretty" corpse.

Because society.

weak

adjective

1.
lacking the power to perform physically demanding tasks; having little physical strength or energy

2.
liable to break or give way under pressure; easily damaged.

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Just because it's a tough reality doesn't mean it's not true.

My post was obviously in jest, what with the silly "gif," but I don't think we need to make every single suicide into a sacred holy untouchable truth that can only be pegged as "mental illness." Sometimes people live horrible lives they'd rather not live, and therefore choose not to.

Sometimes people are unable to deal with the brutality of life, that others are able to cope with. You may be too precious and too socially trained to state the very bottom line - but that line can often be weakness. I know most people suffer from depression, and I know that's a mental illness, but it's too convenient to try and peg every single suicide as that.

Of course the real problem is men having such expectation, and the perk of being gay is that you are free of masculine constraints. Well you can be, otherwise you wind up as one of the tragic bottom-shaming losers around here that think by shaming other gays they are somehow asserting their own masculinity and reclaiming their part in the "straight" world that'd happily throw them aside. Poor insecure gays.

Historically, suicide rates plateau in middle age and then increase again with the elderly. But apparently in the US, suicide is being called an epidemic for Baby Boomers, so you're right about that. Source
There's a ton of articles there about it, and a lot of them mention poor social integration as factor. I had to read excerpts from Emile Durkheim's Suicide for a class once, it's a bit controversial but extremely interesting, and the basis of a lot of research done since then Source

If someone you love died of cancer, would you call them "weak" for not being able to fight it?

No?

Then why should suicidal depression be any different?

You're pretty demented if that's the kind of thing you find funny. Just saying.

So when you call suicide victims "weak," you're including people who kill themselves to escape adversity that's ten times worse than anything you or I have ever experienced. Yeah, you're not really helping your case.

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The "brutality of life" is significantly harsher for some people than others, as you know. And as others have mentioned, men have to deal with the societal standards that prevent them from seeking help when they're in pain, hence the fact that they see suicide as the only escape route.

See? Even you admit that. Pretty easy to call someone "weak" for how they react to a standard that you don't have to live up to, wouldn't you say?

I never knew this

Having mental health issues is not being "liable to break or give way under pressure". Besides, you used this word in a demeaning and negative context with a gif intending to make it somehow funny.

The only truth in here is that you're an awful person for trying to make fun of it. Some literally commit suicide because of such ******** you posted, trying to impose the guilt on the suicide victim. At least have the decency to keep such a disgusting opinion to yourself if you don't want to be called out on it.

Suicide is always caused by some kind of mental defect. There were cultures in which suicide was acceptable (Medieval Japan) for instance, but those people were pressurised into doing it by the society. They'd all live their lives if it wasn't for a stupid sense of "honor". I wonder how would you react if one of your close relatives committed suicide, would you call them weak? People put on fake smiles and hide their depressions every day and when the act finally happens everyone laments that he was so happy, I didn't see any signs.

It is against nature for a person to deprive themselves of their lives. Therefore, the whole concept of suicide never stems exactly from a construction of one's mind but from outside factors (torture or social norms) or from an illness.