I take the story personally and thats probably unhealthy… Shocking amount of suicide and denial of that suicide in my personal life. Anyway, I couldn’t get that data together specifically the way you wanted. Closest I could gather was a listing of public suicides over a ten year span 2013-2023.On average around 45,000 people commit suicide a year, about 12,000 of that by hanging. Public is where the numbers got more difficult but there is some info out there, I’ll post it below. Numbers below represent a single year based on averages from the 10 year span. So its not common but also nowhere near close to unheard of. I had an AI try to compile specifically hanging public suicides and it said between 10-15% of hanging suicides happen in public. I can include the prompts I used to get you there if you dont trust me. Sources it used were the CDC, National Center for Health Statistics and the National Violent Death Reporting System.
Motor vehicle — 2,363.
Natural area — 1,895.
Street or highway — 1,209.
Hotel or motel — 1,032.
Park/playground/sports/athletic area — 719.
Parking lot / public garage / public transport — 700.
Oh, I simply don’t trust genAI. I sometimes finish a project, then see what genAI has to say. It’s usually pretty misleading. They sometimes give sources though. Any links to those?
"Hanging/Suffocation Suicides: According to CDC WONDER data, hanging and suffocation accounted for approximately 25–26% of all suicide deaths in recent years.
Public Place Suicides: NVDRS data indicates that about 22–25% of all suicides occur in public places.
Estimation: By applying the public place percentage to the hanging/suffocation suicides, we estimate that approximately 10–15% of hanging/suffocation suicides occur in public places."
Usually with a comment like that I wouldn’t reply like this but you’re very, very active in this thread.
Any statistics on public suicided by hanging? Ideally per capita grouped by race.
I had a look myself so I know this is a tall order but I thought it was worth seeing if someone has the info
I take the story personally and thats probably unhealthy… Shocking amount of suicide and denial of that suicide in my personal life. Anyway, I couldn’t get that data together specifically the way you wanted. Closest I could gather was a listing of public suicides over a ten year span 2013-2023.On average around 45,000 people commit suicide a year, about 12,000 of that by hanging. Public is where the numbers got more difficult but there is some info out there, I’ll post it below. Numbers below represent a single year based on averages from the 10 year span. So its not common but also nowhere near close to unheard of. I had an AI try to compile specifically hanging public suicides and it said between 10-15% of hanging suicides happen in public. I can include the prompts I used to get you there if you dont trust me. Sources it used were the CDC, National Center for Health Statistics and the National Violent Death Reporting System.
Motor vehicle — 2,363.
Natural area — 1,895.
Street or highway — 1,209.
Hotel or motel — 1,032.
Park/playground/sports/athletic area — 719.
Parking lot / public garage / public transport — 700.
Jail or prison — 654.
Commercial / retail area — 475.
Bridge — 323.
Railroad tracks — 285.
Hospital / medical facility — 178.
Oh, I simply don’t trust genAI. I sometimes finish a project, then see what genAI has to say. It’s usually pretty misleading. They sometimes give sources though. Any links to those?
https://wonder.cdc.gov/
https://www.cdc.gov/nvdrs/
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/ss/pdfs/ss7405a1-H.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/ss/pdfs/ss7305a1-H.pdf
"Hanging/Suffocation Suicides: According to CDC WONDER data, hanging and suffocation accounted for approximately 25–26% of all suicide deaths in recent years.
Public Place Suicides: NVDRS data indicates that about 22–25% of all suicides occur in public places.
Estimation: By applying the public place percentage to the hanging/suffocation suicides, we estimate that approximately 10–15% of hanging/suffocation suicides occur in public places."