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by scotty79 2799 days ago
> However, 200,000 people still die each year from pesticide poisonings, according to UN estimates, about 99% of them in the developing world. A further 110,000 suicides using pesticides take place each year.

So roughly 35% of deaths from pesticides are suicides.

On the other hand in 2012, 64% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides.

I wonder if you could get from that some kind of safety estimate, of how easy it is to die from a thing accidentally in realtion of how easy it is to die intentionally.... Probably not.