Suicide: an act of courage or of cowardness

Lilie suggested to post here a list I have with the rate of suicide per country. The first columns are males percentage, then female percentage, third is the percentage of the population and last one is the year of gathering those information.
Here is the list (I cut it to 75 countries):
1. Lithuania 68.1 12.8 38.6 2005
2. Belarus 63.3 10.3 35.1 2003
3. Russia 58.1 9.8 32.2 2005
4. Slovenia 42.1 11.1 26.3 2006
5. Hungary 42.3 11.2 26.0 2005
6. Kazakhstan 45.0 8.1 25.9 2005
7. Latvia 42.0 9.6 24.5 2005
8. South Korea 29.6 14.1 21.9 2006
9. Guyana 33.8 11.6 22.9 2005
10. Ukraine 40.9 7.0 22.6 2005
11. Japan See: Suicide in Japan 34.8 13.2 23.7 2006
12. Sri Lanka N/A N/A 21.6 1996
13. Belgium 31.2 11.4 21.1 1997
14. Estonia 35.5 7.3 20.3 2005
15. Finland 31.1 9.6 20.1 2005
16. Croatia 30.5 9.7 19.7 2005
17. Serbia and Montenegro 28.4 11.1 19.5 2006
18. Hong Kong[2] 22.0 13.1 17.4 2005
19. Moldova 31.5 5.1 17.8 2006
20. France 26.4 9.2 17.6 2005
21. Switzerland 24.7 10.5 17.5 2005
22. Poland 27.8 4.6 15.8 2005
23. Austria 24.7 7.0 15.6 2006
24. Czech Republic 25.5 5.6 15.3 2005
25. Uruguay 24.5 6.4 15.1 2001
26. People's Republic of China[3] 13.0 14.8 13.9 1999
27. Denmark 19.2 8.1 13.6 2001
28. Seychelles N/A N/A 13.2 1998
29. New Zealand[4] 20.3 6.5 13.2 2004
30. Sweden 19.5 7.1 13.2 2002
31. Bulgaria 19.7 6.7 13.0 2004
32. Germany 19.7 6.6 13.0 2004
33. Trinidad and Tobago 20.9 4.9 12.8 2000
34. Slovakia 22.3 3.4 12.6 2005
35. Romania 21.5 4.0 12.5 2004
36. Cuba 18.5 6.2 12.4 2004
37. Suriname 17.8 6.4 12.1 2000
38. Bosnia and Herzegovina 20.3 3.3 11.8 1991
39. Norway 15.7 7.4 11.5 2005
40. Canada 17.3 5.4 11.3 2004
41. Iceland 16.2 6.1 11.2 2005
42. Portugal 17.5 4.9 11.0 2003
43. United States 17.7 4.5 11.0 2005
44. Luxembourg 17.7 4.3 10.9 2005
45. Australia 17.1 4.7 10.8 2003
46. India 12.2 9.1 10.6 1998
47. Chile 17.8 3.1 10.4 2003
48. Singapore 12.9 7.7 10.3 2006
49. South Africa[5] N/A N/A 10.0 2004
50. Ireland 16.3 3.2 9.7 2005
51. Netherlands 12.7 6.0 9.3 2004
52. Kyrgyzstan 15.3 3.2 9.2 2005
53. Argentina 14.1 3.5 8.7 2003
54. Turkmenistan 13.8 3.5 8.6 1998
55. Mauritius 13.2 8.5 8.5 2005
56. Zimbabwe 10.6 5.2 7.9 1990
57. Thailand 12.0 3.8 7.8 2002
58. Spain 12.0 3.8 7.8 2005
59. Saint Lucia 10.4 5.0 7.7 2002
60. Belize 13.4 1.6 7.6 2001
61. Ecuador 10.4 4.0 7.2 2005
62. Nicaragua 11.1 3.3 7.2 2005
63. Italy 11.4 3.1 7.1 2002
64. El Salvador 10.3 3.5 6.9 2005
65. Republic of Macedonia 9.5 4.0 6.8 2003
66. United Kingdom 10.4 3.2 6.8 2005
67. Costa Rica 10.6 1.9 6.3 2005
68. Panama 11.1 1.4 6.3 2003
69. Israel 10.4 2.1 6.2 2003
70. Puerto Rico 10.9 1.8 6.2 2002
71. Malta 7.0 4.9 6.0 2004
72. Colombia 8.9 2.6 5.7 1999
73. Uzbekistan 8.1 3.0 5.5 2003
74. Venezuela 8.4 1.8 5.1 2002
75. Brazil 6.8 1.9 4.3 2002

A note: males are more due to suicide than women.
I myself had one attempt. Maybe I will write about it later.
If I offend or hurt anybody's sensibility with this topic I apologize in advance and I will delete this post.

this is something you dont hear people talk often about..
you read about in a paper or see it on the news now and then...
i have never experienced it my self.....
but my sister has.....her best friend did suicide and it was my sister that found her....hanging down from a tree.
she did take her own life after a fight for her kids...that she lost....it was the main reason....

courage.......no...
cowarsness...no
when people dont see another solution ....no lights in their life....nothing worth fighting for anymore.....
life is just to hard to go true.............
in one way i think it is selfish........but then again i know life is hard..very hard for some.......

but what about the people they leave behinde........
for my sister it was so hard.....she got a break down.......she felt it was her fault....she was with her 10 min befor.....what should or could she do diffrent to make her friend come back............all the questions................why ???

suicide is not a good solution..................not for you self or for the family or friends that you leave behind......................seek help insted!!!!

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.