gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (02/12/84)
> From: spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) > Organization: Georgia Tech School of ICS, Atlanta > Botched suicides are cries for help. They signal that the person > involved feels they have lost control and they need someone outside to > help set their lives aright. That is one reason why (in our society) > men have a much higher successful suicide rate than women -- it is > ingrained in the modern American male not to need help with his life > and so he doesn't cry out for help. Besides, a male ego suffering from > feelings of inadequacy certainly does not want to fail in this last, > final act. Interestingly, while males attempt suicide less often than females, they are more successful at it. One reason maybe that as they are success-driven then failure to succede at suicide (that is, surviving the attempt) would be intolerably humiliating. -- Gordon A. Moffett { allegra, decvax!decwrl } !amd70!proper hplabs!intelca!proper!gam