title: Motives for suicide--a study of Australian suicide notes.
abstract: Analysis of a large sample of suicide notes from 262 suicides in Australia found that men less often had escape from pain as a motive for their suicides and more often had love/romantic problems. The suicides of older persons were more often motivated by escape from pain and less often had love/romantic problems.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Program, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Pomona 08240-0195, USA. lesterd@stockton.edu
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
authors.forename: Priscilla
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: Christopher
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haines
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001315:Australia / Q000453:epidemiology; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data