Breast Implants and Suicide

In her blog, Debbie Schlussel questions the usefulness of research showing that women who have breast implants are more likely to commit suicide than other women. It should be obvious, she argues, that women who have implants have low self-worth and therefore a greater likelihood to self-destruction. She does not say (whether the research took into consideration) what percentage of the women with implants obtained implants as reconstructive procedures, such as, after breast cancer surgery. Nor does she say whether the women who had implants obtained implants because they were severely disfigured in some way that the implants remedied. I think it is possible that medical issues, distinguishable from low self-esteem as such, that pushed women to obtain implants might also have been behind some suicides.