ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a combination of method and location, which suggests a high level of intent to die—firearms combined with a location away from home. In his boyhood days, Vincent Foster lived across the street from to-be president William Clinton. Foster's case is representative of several of the general characteristics of persons who travel away from home and use a firearm to end their lives—a lethal location combined with a lethal method. Differences in gender role socialization to outdoor activities may explain part of the gender differential in choosing locations away from home for suicide. Poisoning is the most common method in suicide episodes. Fully 74.5% of all suicidal episodes are by poison. The chapter uses the term, the Paladin Pattern for the longer expression "nonresidential firearm suicide". Paladin was the central character, played by Richard Boone, in the hit television series, Have Gun Will Travel.
