6. Protective service
Rates of suicides per 100,000 people: 30.5
In the sixth place on this list of 15 occupations with most suicides is protective service. This is another profession for which is quite expected to be placed on this list. People working in the police or firefighting departments have very dangerous, and hence stressful job. Their lives are often times endangered, they bear vast responsibility, and they have to face various sights and situations that are hard to ever forget. It’s only a surprise that this occupation didn’t rank even higher.
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