This report took as its starting point not the
aetiology of suicide among middle-aged men in low
socio-economic groups, but the broader terrain of
men’s emotional lives in mid-life, in order to try and
illuminate the context within which such acts occur.
By applying the lenses of life stage, generation and
cohort, it argued that mid-life, while doubtless
always having its challenges, has become
increasingly complex in light of the cultural, socioeconomic
and demographic changes engaged with
throughout the report.