Originally Posted by Angel

blah my edit got lost


what I found was this, according to the WHO via Wiki, the US has about 10 suicides per 100,000 people. this time the US population of 298B divided by 365 days per year points to about 83 suicides per day in the US (sounds like a lot)

Ok, so 1/3rd of the population is not capable of committing suicide (babies or other people not physically skilled enough to kill themselves) so make that 40 or 50 suicides a day (still sounds like a lot - what am I missing here ?)

If there are 40 suicides a day in the US, whats the chance that a few of them were hangings, and the person had recently watched the hanging on tv/internet ? What am I missing here ?

-John