Suicide Statistics Degrees of Certainty
Suicide deaths account for nearly 46,00 deaths in the United States, about one death every five minutes. The number per year has continued to grow for the past several years.
Investigators face many challenges in this death, including when to rule a death a suicide and what degree of certainty must be obtained before making that ruling.
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