By contrast, one weekend a year earlier, when Theadora Merez, 20, and James Mills, 49, plunged to their deaths in separate suicides, Reuters news service noted: "The news rates hardly a mention in the local press". Experts say only about one-third of suicide victims leave notes.
Among youth, about one-third of suicide victims satisfied the criteria for clinical depression or other treatable mental illnesses [ 7], underscoring the importance of research focused beyond the conventional risk factors such as exposure to suicide and psychosocial stressors [ 8].
Evidence from psychological autopsy studies shows that approximately one-third of suicide victims do not have symptoms indicative of major depression at their time of death [ 10], suggesting the importance of other contributory factors in a substantial proportion of those who die by suicide.
One wouldn't have to know that perceived sexual orientation plays a role in one-third of teenage suicides to imagine the pain these ostracized kids feel.
3 In a systematic review from 2007, it was estimated that pesticide self-poisoning was responsible for as much as one-third of all suicides globally.
The first 2 5 years after psychosis onset presage much of the eventual clinical and psychosocial deterioration in schizophrenia spectrum disorders [ 6] including one-third of completed suicides [ 7], relapse and re-hospitalizations [ 8], violence [ 9] and neurocognitive dysfunction [ 10].
Although more than one-fifth of suicides in local jails happened in segregation, nearly half occurred among inmates housed in the general population.
Though less professional than Hamas, Islamic Jihad has carried out roughly one-third of the suicide bombings over the last 18 months and, despite its rivalry with the larger group, it has carried out some joint operations.
And almost one third of suicides occur within the first week of someone arriving in custody.
Financial concerns are cited in one-fifth of suicide notes; almost half of all suicides are unemployed.
