Royal hoax call: Coroner says nurse Jacintha Saldanha found hanging in her room

[JackRiddler]

10. Not at all true. Hanging is a very common method of suicide...

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among all groups, throughout the world.

Hanging is the most common method of suicide in the UK. Here are statistics for 2010:

http://lostallhope.com/suicide-statistics/england-wales-methods-suicide

21% of UK female suicides were by hanging. That's 247 women in the UK for 2010. Poisoning/overdose was more common among women, whereas hanging was the most common method among men.

In the US, almost 20 percent of female suicides in 2004 were by "Hanging, strangulation, suffocation," for a total of 1,356 women who killed themselves that way in this country in one year.

http://www.suicide.org/suicide-statistics.html

Not so many out of 300 million population, but nothing you could call "very rare."

You will find the same story in almost every country. Fewer women kill themselves than men (in the West, more make the attempt). Among those who do kill themselves, hanging usually will be one of the three most common methods.