[T]he concern for women is that the final decision to end their lives may nevertheless be influenced by risk factors that challenge the rhetoric of “choice.”
Here are some of those “gendered risks”.
Longer life span
More likely to experience their partner’s death
Fewer economic resources in old age
More self-sacrificial and less assertive
Women are arguably more self-sacrificial and less assertive than men, whether by nature, socialisation or simply in terms of society’s ideals about femaleness.
Women demonstrate a stronger preference for more structured, passive methods of suicide, with significant physician participation.
More likely to attempt suicide
Entrenched patterns of violence against women
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