Tuesday 25 June 2019

"Selfie deaths: 259 people reported dead seeking the perfect picture"

From the BBC:

News reports... were analysed to compile the study.

They found that selfie-related deaths are most common in India, Russia, the United States and Pakistan and 72.5% of those reported are men.


That last sentence is hardly surprising.

It contains three of the world's five most populous countries. We don't know whether the Chinese and Indonesians are more sensible or whether suicide-by-selfie is simply under-reported.

That leaves Russia, which is only ninth by population but third most suicidal (most suicidal if ranked by male suicides). If you multiply those numbers up, there are probably more suicides in Russia than in any other country.

And most of the suicides-by-selfie are by men. Well duh, men are more reckless and like showing off how brave they are.

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