Abstract
The economic cost of suicide: A review of citations to “recalculating the economic cost of suicide”
Lester, D. & Yang, B.
An analysis of 91 citations for an article by Yang and Lester (2007), which argued that suicides result in savings to the society, showed that only 9 reported Yang and Lester’s thesis correctly, and only one article conducted a serious discussion of the issues raised by Yang and Lester.