Su Jui-ping, former director of Taipei Fine Arts Museum, who has studied the history of gold worldwide, believes that generally speaking, only women would choose this method of suicide, for gold jewelry is something that women wear about their person, and so it comes easily to hand.
研究世界黃金發展史的前台北市立美術館長蘇瑞屏認為，一般只有中國女性才會用吞金方式自殺，因為黃金首飾是女人的隨身物，最易取得。