What profession has the highest suicide rate?

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I had heard it was dentists but this has been disproved http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/msuicide.html has facts and figures on different professions but reckon students come out top but that is hardly a profession Aug 02 03, 3:36 AM

McGruff

I was also going to post the page from Cecil Adams about Denists, along with this from the link below: "But experts on suicide say that statistics on its relation to occupation are not clear. There is no national data set on occupation and suicide. Local studies indicate elevated rates in different occupations, but the data usually "turn out to be frail," says prominent suicide researcher David Clark, PhD. And in fact, points out Ronald Maris, PhD, director of the Center for the Study of Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior at the University of South Carolina, "Occupation is not a major predictor of suicide and it does not explain much about why the person commits suicide." http://www.apa.org/monitor/jan01/suicide.html Aug 02 03, 9:34 AM

Linus_337

Several sites, including the one below, say that veterinarians have the highest suicide rate in Britain. I know that general practitioners have a high rate of suicide and drug addiction too. http://www.swcollege.com/marketing/zikmund/current_consumer_behavior_research.html Aug 02 03, 4:06 PM