ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what influences the selection of hotels as a stage for suicide. The most recent available data coming from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) for the year 2010 show that hotels constituted the fourth most common location for suicide. A major theme in the relationship between psychiatric variables and choosing a hotel as a suicide stage involved hard drugs. Of those who tested positive for cocaine, 3.8% of the persons testing positive for cocaine ended their lives in hotels compared to only 2.0% of other persons. The chapter summarizes the link between the use of poison as a method of suicide and the selection of a hotel as a location for suicide: 4.6 of those who use poison as a method for suicide choose a hotel for their act, whereas only 1.6% of those who use other methods select hotels for their suicides.
