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Table 1 Direct, indirect costs and death and disability costs related to suicide and suicide attempt in France in 2019 (in millions euros)

From: The cost of illness and burden of suicide and suicide attempts in France

Cost of suicide and suicide attempts

Suicide

N = 11,558

Suicide attempts

N = 200,000

Total

Direct cost

75

566

641

Healthcare

8

566

574

 Acute care

7

183

190

 Rehabilitation

0.13

11

11

 Psychiatry

0.19

197

197

 Emergency department

0.01

22

22

 Transport

0.01

58

58

 Outpatient care

0.50

95

96

Post-mortem cost

67

0

67

 Autopsy

13

0

13

 Body removal

0.66

0

0.66

 Police

3.5

0

3.5

 Funeral expenses

50

0

50

Support groups

0.10

0.18

0.28

Indirect cost

3,793

3,519

7,313

 Daily allowances

0

69

69

 Productivity loss

3,793

3,450

7,243

Death and disability monetary value

14,625

1,346

15,971

Total

18,493

5,431

23,925

  1. Note: We summed the direct, indirect costs and the monetary value of death and disability to provide a summary figure. This figure however includes a double counting for daily allowances and productivity losses; combining costs, losses and monetary value of death and disability is not recommended, although commonly undertaken for advocacy purposes