Obviously there are a lot of reasons people kill themselves – and have been doing so since the beginning of time.
However, take the case of Al Rio, one of the suicide cases from the Wikipedia page:
blog.bcdb.com/animator-artist-al … cide-2900/
There’s no explanation for his death that I can readily see, and he obviously was losing hair. Now, there are a million reasons he could have killed himself. But did anyone ask his family if he had taken finasteride?
I have no idea, but if I had funding to conduct I study, I would contact his family and ask. Ditto the families of any successful man who (a) has taken his life in the past 10 years, (b) showed some signs of hair loss and © had otherwise been happy and healthy, with no apparent explanation for his death.
Better yet, take Jack Wishna from that same list. I don’t know anything other than what I quickly Googled, but (a) he obviously had frontal hair loss:
mstarz.com/articles/6663/201 … soning.htm
…and (b) note this passage from that same story:
“Close friends and family were shocked by Wishna’s sudden passing, since nothing seemed to be wrong or out-of-the-ordinary in the days leading up to his suicide.”
If I had to bet, I would say such a study would turn up at least 3 or 4 men from that Wikipedia list who DID take finasteride but no one put two and two together at the time of their deaths.
And if more such finasteride suicides were publicized, men the world over would think twice about taking the drug.
Because in the end – and Daniel Stewart’s family will tell you – is a little hair loss worth killing yourself over?
