Saudi Suicide Rates: Where the Women Are

A new report from King Saud University looks at suicide rates in the magic kingdom and discovers a massive gender disparity - wonder why?

In her study, which concentrated on failed suicide attempts in 2006, the researcher found out that 96 percent of the cases involved women. She told Reuters that in the hospital where she works, they receive around 11 cases every month of women who have failed in their suicide attempts...

The report highlights many factors that can lead women to consider killing themselves, one of them being forced marriages...

In this kind of environment, suicide can appear to some as a solution.Disregarding a woman’s free will and her right to choose her life can simply lead her to desperation. The researcher told Reuters that many Saudi girls do not have channels of communication with their parents, and that they seldom find sympathy for their emotional and social distress.

All that, plus the law of the country reduces you to the physical property of your male relatives.

Comments

[John B. Chilton]

The irony of the word "driving" in the headline - intentional or not - is striking.

[green laser]

well,i think you are right.

[dr dre beats headphones]

Or maybe they'll request Everyday is Like Sunday: "Come, come, nuclear bomb..."