&gt; <i>Isn&#x27;t this the case in most countries?</i><p>I don&#x27;t think so. Personally, I only heard about it in Japan, because this particular method of suicide is so endemic there.<p>About US, on the other hand, I read a different story. Gun-inflicted suicides are more common there, and there are reports that often, police officers purposefully misreport those as &quot;gun-related accidents&quot;, so that the family can still get life insurance of the deceased person.