Why do you think white men in the West have the highest suicide rate?

Because they are ultimately cowards. They are so used to being privileged and living life with the world catering to their needs that they often become completely helpless when things actually get hard, especially if they are expected to face that alone. They don't nurture genuine, emotionally supportive friendships and relationships who will help them get through hard times. They don't take care of their mental and physical health. To them, commiting suicide and leaving other people to deal with the consequences and pick up the pieces actually seems easier than admitting to themselves that they made mistakes and figuring out their own problems in the world THEY built. Add to that the stigma about asking for help and using mental health services because they consider that "unmanly" and there you have it.

EDIT: Men also commit suicide in selfish and destructive ways more often: killing their wife and kids too, going on a shooting spree and then commiting "suicide by cop", deliberately endangering and traumatizing other people by jumping in front of a car or train or causing a car accident, killing themselves in some gruesome way set up so they will by found by their wife, children or innocent bystanders who will end up traumatized...

I think it's because they live probably the most selfishly out of all demographics, so they end up alone, without a partner, kids, or social network. I'd imagine that'd make anyone suicidal, but it's also sort of deserved.

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My guess: they lose their sense of purpose because they don't know how to entertain themselves, think for themselves, or do things for themselves when they retire, and thus still feel entitled to the world catering and pandering to them/providing them with purpose and entertainment like it always has done. Except, it doesn't any more.

Too bad, so fucking sad.

Looks like men are the "golden children" of society. In narc families, the scapegoat child is often forced to seek solace outside of the household and when they manage to escape, to get past the abuse, overcome the odds and work on themselves to heal, they often end up being productive and successful members of society.

On the other hand, the golden child has spent his life serving as fuel to the parent(s) narc tendencies. They lack self-awareness, autonomy, independence, empathy... everything that would make them grow into a functioning adult. The consequences are hell. Mostly because you can never really fully please a narc, so you always end up with the short end of the stick.

It really doesn't make any sense. What exactly is holding these men back? What has being born male have done to them that makes them fail at life? Being white means they should be able to navigate through life and the world without much strife, but they act like it is the most hardest thing in the world to be a straight white male. I'm sorry but, what?!

The world's most richest men on Earth right now are literally straight white males. They really have no fucking excuse to keep up with this false narrative that because of affirmative action, because of the civil rights protests, because of the gay rights movement, because of the women's suffrage and feminism, that they can't make it in life. In reality, they want everybody else to have nothing to feed on except crumbs while they get to eat with a silver spoon. Anything less than that and they cry oppression.

Despite great strides for minority groups, we are still seeing global violence against them, and people being pushed back in life because of them not being white and/or being a man. Women are still being paid less than men on average within the same company. Black men are still being murdered by the police for no reason. White men can absolutely have everything they've dreamed of in life, and all they have to do is just put the tiniest, miniscule of effort put in.

Men commit suicide in their later years, because they can no longer find women to enslave. What’s worse than being an aging narcissist? Everyone knows what you are. Everyone is sick of your shit. Your kids and ex wives don’t care about you anymore, and even your money can’t buy you what your good looks once got you for free. No one is gonna want to wipe your arse as you die, because you were so obnoxious to those who tried to love you in decades past, so what’s the point in sticking around. Same goes for most young guys. If they’re not bullied by other men, they’re upset that they’re not the ones getting to use and abuse women like “Chad” and “Tyrone” do. They’ve made their psychotic thoughts quite available by writing and regurgitating them on the internet constantly. I’m actually surprised more don’t kill themselves. What kind of a life are they leading?

All these answers gloss over a fact. Statistically, women attempt suicide at a significantly higher rate than men. Men tend to succeed more often due to the methods they use.

I don’t think it has much to do with people who commit being selfish or cowardly. That’s a stereotype that is pretty harmful.

I think it’s because they don’t have wives to take care of them. Or their kids can’t take care of them. so when they can’t get help they just off themselves.

my father is very similar. He treats everyone around him like garbage. We haven’t talked in years. He is always having money troubles. So many people in the family have cut him off because he takes our money and then treats us like crap. after the last fam member cut him off he attempted suicide and then blamed everyone that it was all our fault that he did that because we don’t want to help him out anymore. At the time he attempted this he was homeless! so just imagine how much he hurt his family that no one would save him from being homeless.

so I feel like I have an idea of the certain kind of man that does this. It’s sad but the men don’t want to help themselves and they live in loneliness because of their actions.

Because old men didn't uphold their social relationships, often relying on wives to keep their friends, and social isolation is a big factor behind suicide.

I wary men in the west, They have Asian fetishes and old dudes are saying that one of their high standard is that she needs to be Asian, Asians bounce back from child birth rapidly by western women remain fat.

Humans are designed to work to survive, build a family, contribute to a community, humans are a higher animal, they need to define and live by a value system & derive meaning from their life. It doesn't suprise me that farting, cheating, gaming & porn addicted, online trolling scrotes who try to "slay" instead of building meaningful relationships become very confused and unhappy eventually. Also human beings are designed to explore, think, expand, white males in the west get everything handed to them. I, too, would feel useless and unhappy in such a sorry state.

Job dissatisfaction. Poverty.