Table 2

Counterfactual Estimation of Number of ERPOs Needed to Prevent One Suicide Death

				Counterfactual Estimates
	Observed Number of Suicide Deaths and Extrapolated Estimate of Suicide Attempts			Suicide Attempts		Suicide Deaths
Suicide Method	Observed Suicides, by Method	National Case Fatality Rate (CFR)	Estimated Suicide Attempts, by Method	Firearm	Other Method	Firearm	Other Method	Total
Firearm	20	0.90	22.3	22.3	—	20.0	—	20.0
Drug or poison	8	0.02	416.0	162.2	253.8	146.0	4.9	150.9
Suffocation	12	0.42	28.9	11.3	17.6	10.1	7.3	17.5
Cutting	2	0.01	283.2	110.4	172.7	99.4	1.2	100.6
Jumping	2	0.28	7.2	2.8	4.4	2.5	1.2	3.7
Other	1	0.02	58.2	22.7	35.5	20.4	0.6	21.1
Total	45		815.8	331.8	484.0	298.5	15.3	313.8
						Expected		313.8
						Observed		45.0
						Lives saved		268.8
						ERPOs		4,583.0
					Number of ERPOs per life saved			17.1