Although suicide may not be viewed as an act of aggression, it is a result of it.
According to suicide.org:
According to suicide.org:
- The number of deaths by suicide in 2001 reached 30,622 with a rate of 83.9 per day
- Total amount of suicides by firearm was 16,869 (2001)
- Number of suffocation suicides was 6,198 (in 2001)
- The total number of suicides by poisoning was 5,191 (in 2001)
- Overall suicides by males were 24,672 out of 30,266
- The rest of them committed by females was a meager 5,950
- The top suicide method was firearms, with the method of fire as the least common
- 1.3% of deaths are by suicide
- There is an average of 1 suicide every 17 minutes
- Suicide is the eighth leading cause for males and the nineteenth leading cause for females.
- Approximately 750,000 suicides are attempted each year
- An estimated 5 million living Americans have attempted suicide