สัดส่วนของคนที่มีอายุมากกว่าการเขียนบันทึกการฆ่าตัวตายในครั้งนี้กลุ่มตัวอย่างที่อยู่ในปลายบนของช่วง 12.4-47.3% พบในช่วงปลายชีวิตการศึกษาการฆ่าตัวตายที่คล้ายกัน(เบนเน็ตต์และคอลลิน 2001 Cattell และ Jolley, 1995; โคปแลนด์ 1987; Kaplan et al, 2012;. Karch 2011; Osuna, et al, 1997;. Quan และ Arboleda-Florez 1999; Salib, et al. 2005; โล่ et al, 2006;. และสโนว์ดอน Baume, 2002) The proportion of older people writing suicide notes in this
sample is in the upper end of a range of 12.4–47.3% found in
similar late-life suicide studies (Bennett and Collins, 2001; Cattell
and Jolley, 1995; Copeland, 1987; Kaplan et al., 2012; Karch, 2011;
Osuna et al., 1997; Quan and Arboleda-Florez, 1999; Salib et al.,
2005; Shields et al., 2006; Snowdon and Baume, 2002). In terms of
demographics, the mean age of our suicide note writers was 77.5
years and they were born in the 1920s and 1930s and grew up as
young adults through the 1940s and 1950s. This relatively high
proportion, and with our finding that Caucasians were more likely
to leave a suicide note, may be partly explained by the common
social practice of letter writing during an era when New Zealanders
had little access to telephones. Overseas telephone calls
became possible from the 1930s in New Zealand and it was not
until 1959 when a telecommunications ‘motorway’ was established
for long distance calls (Newman, 2008). Many people who
lived in farming communities and rural areas of New Zealand
wrote letters to their families and friends in other parts of the
country, their home country in the UK (mainly) and those who
were serving in World War II and the Korean War.
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