To clarify our calculations, we compared our estimates of the age‐specific indirect costs with the latest previous report. Published on the web by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it used officially reported numbers of suicides and costs for 2010 (CDC, 2015a). To compare our findings (which apply to 2013) to those from the CDC, we adjusted the CDC's findings to 2013 approximating the same procedure as our study. As 97% of the costs of suicidal deaths were indirect, we focused our comparison on indirect costs, adjusting by the growth in GDP per capita (World Bank, 2015a). Furthermore, as both our study and the CDCs use the same counts in reported suicidal deaths, the comparison of indirect costs simplified to a comparison of indirect costs per suicidal death.
