Retrieved from https://media.samaritans.org/documents/Samaritans_-_out_of_sight_out_of_mind_2020.pdf . In Scotland specifically, suicide deaths are 2.4 times more common in the most deprived areas compared to the least deprived, a disparity that exceeds the general deprivation gap of 1.8 times seen across all causes of death in 202310National Records of Scotland. (2024).