# Suicide by Profession **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 20, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662 "2001-04-20T11:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alien\_Of\_Earth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Alien\_Of\_Earth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alien_Of_Earth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/1 "2001-04-20T11:58:24Z")
gee…from the sound of the column, maybe the teeming millions are getting to our favorite columnist… Chris ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/2 "2001-04-20T13:12:23Z")
Hi! Um, is this in reference to a specific column or Staff Report, or is it just a general Great Thought? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/3 "2001-04-20T14:05:15Z")
Silly **Goose**. [Suicide](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010420.html) is on today’s home page. Don’t you refresh that every 10 minutes? ::rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/4 "2001-04-20T14:39:31Z")
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**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/5 "2001-04-20T15:11:49Z")
In the version of Cecil’s Column on [suicide by dentists](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/010420.html) that I read in my weekly free paper (NY Press), it had a short aside stating that if you wanted sources for the statistics used, you should go to [www.straightdope.com](http://www.straightdope.com). I patiently waited until today for the online column to come up so I could see the statistics. Imagine my surprise when I found that the online column not only did not have the sources, but the aside promising them had been deleted. I’m sure that this was a minor production error that will soon be corrected. I wouldn’t want to have to face an enraged Cecil screaming Littttttle Eddddddd! ---
**Author:** ![Alien\_Of\_Earth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Alien\_Of\_Earth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alien_Of_Earth)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/6 "2001-04-20T15:14:20Z")
sorry, first time post. but can you imagine…getting bombarded with dozens, hundreds of questions a day, many of which are just weird enough to get your curiosity bump itching? those questions that just have to be answered? ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2001, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/7 "2001-04-20T15:36:00Z")
Doctors, including dentists, have access to controlled substances, and some of these suicides may be euthanasia. Still technically suicide, of course, but it would punch holes in the theory that the stress of working in health fields ‘causes’ higher suicide rates. ---
**Author:** ![Neidhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Neidhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neidhart)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2001, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/8 "2001-04-22T17:30:46Z")
_cue MASH theme_ ---
**Author:** ![claudea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@claudea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/claudea)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/9 "2001-04-23T01:48:12Z")
Makes sense, you know, Dentists always look so down-in-the-mouth. Get is? Down-in-the-mouth, Dentist? Well, someone had to say it. ---
**Author:** ![Sparteye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Sparteye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparteye)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2001, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suicide-by-profession/62662/10 "2001-04-23T15:49:05Z")
\*Well, someone had to say it. \* Tongue in cheek, I suppose.