The (mental health) death iceberg – deaths due to family violence and suicide (Australia 2022) [OC]

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1. You took remarks into consideration.

2. Do the 1s stand for anything at the bottom?

3. Interesting, unsure if beautiful though. Would be interested to see this with deaths from non-family violence.

4. “1 square = 1 death in Australia in 2022”

5. Interesting graphic. Not sure I understand how the two issues are linked other than to show relative scale? But the suicide gender difference is surprising.

6. You don’t often see 1 square equals 1 death type of stats. Pretty impactful.

7. I generally love waffle graphs, but I’m not really liking this one. I get that you wanted it to be 1 square = 1 death, but there are so many squares, that I refuse to count. Waffle graphs usually allow for easy counting, but that’s when they’re 10×10. With this many squares, ain’t no way.

   You should switch to percentages, honestly. You can still do a waffle graph (10×10, please), as long as you do some rounding. Honestly though, with this few options, you can just go for the ol reliable pie graph, with indicated percentages. Boring, but more readable.

8. patriarchy is hurts everyone

9. Very well done. Thanks for your efforts!

10. Not to nitpick but shouldn’t the light blue squares start at the left of the line?

11. I don’t like the color choices. They should be more distinct.

    Also, the light blue line should start on the left side of the graph.

12. yeah, here in Australia we men tough it out, have a cup of concrete to harden the fuck up, put down the pink phone, leave our girls blouses at home and then kill ourselves before we’re 40

13. Funding and attention seems to be the inverse, sadly.

14. I thought this was the windows xp defrag window at first.

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16. This clearly shows what most men learn eventually through life: men are expendable. Nothing has fundamentally changed since the days of the Titanic, with the “women and children first” motto. There’s a lot of talk about the top portions of this iceberg, but for the bottom 75% you’re just a statistic.

17. Wow this is so sad. So many untimely deaths could be prevented if people know the truth. Many are afflicted by bad spirits and they push us to do bad things. Belief in Jesus Christ as Lord gives us protection from this, true belief can cast them out, and some of them need prayer over to rid them.

    I pray I don’t lose any more brothers and sisters this unknowing.

18. Seems like the classic mens rights take of “look at how tough men are doing it”

    Introducing DFV is bizarre as relating that to suicide is totally nonsensical. One is someone choosing to take their own life. One is another having their life taken by someone else. If you were comparing DFV rates it would be more applicable to compare it to homicide, assaults or even drunk driving deaths.

    If you’re going to focus on mental health which is fine. I think you need to include more context. What % of each group lives in poverty, uses drugs or alcohol, has ever used talk therapy, feels connected to their peers.

    These subjective measures are what’s required to show any sort of insight into this sad reality.

19. Nobody cares when a man kills himself. Terribly sad.

20. u removed the sexist red line, good idea.

21. Can you please separate child deaths from adult deaths re: family violence? I think the nuance is important.
    Edit:word

22. For people going through divorce, men end their lives at around 900% the rate of women, which is greater again than the large gap that already exists in the background population.

23. I don’t think these (suicide and family violence) have that much to do with each other, closer would be family violence deaths vs murders. Both family violence and suicidal are chronically under funded and under discussed though.

24. That reminds me, I need to defrag my harddisk.

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