“For as often as we hear about murders, the suicide rate is actually much higher than the homicide rate. Nearly a third more people die at their own hands than at other people’s (the murder rate in America is about 6 per 100,000; for suicides it’s about 10.8).”
http://news.discovery.com/human/psychology/suicide-a-more-present-threat-than-murder-130823.htm
