According to the Center for Suicide Prevention, in 2005, the estimated costs of deaths due to suicide in the entire USA population was 16 billion dollars, while that of non-fatal suicide attempts was 4.7 billion dollars. Yang and Bijou (2007), estimated the economic cost of each youth that completed suicide to be $1,022,950 from lost lifetime savings (using a life expectancy of 65) while the estimated medical costs for a failed suicide attempt was estimated to be $12,570 in 2005.
The costs-benefits of suicide are two-fold: (1) The direct and indirect costs-benefits of suicide and failed suicide attempts (2) The costs-benefits of creating and sustaining suicide prevention intervention programs. The cost-benefits can be described as monetary, non-monetary, perceived and actual.
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