(Health Services Executive, 2005), $299 for New Zealand (O'Dea & Tucker, 2005), and $489 for Scotland (Platt et al., 2006). The amount in the United States was $186 based on officially reported suicides and $298 with adjustment for underreporting. In addition to the aforementioned UK study (Cooper & Milroy, 1995), imprecise coding of cause of death affects other countries as well (Lozano et al., 2012).
