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Certain currents in sociology consider society as being composed ofautonomous individuals with independent psychologies. Others, however, deem ouractions as strongly influenced by the accepted standards of social behavior.The later view was central to the positivist conception of society when in 1887\'Emile Durkheim published his monograph Suicide (Durkheim, 1897). By treatingthe suicide as a social fact, Durkheim envisaged that suicide rates should bedetermined by the connections (or the lack of them) between people and society.Under the same framework, Durkheim considered that crime is bound up with thefundamental conditions of all social life and serves a social function. In thissense, and regardless of its extremely deviant nature, crime events are somehowcapable to release certain social tensions and so have a purging effect insociety. The social effect on the occurrence of homicides has been previouslysubstantiated (Bettencourt et al., 2007; Alves et al., 2013), and confirmedhere, in terms of a superlinear scaling relation: by doubling the population ofa Brazilian city results in an average increment of 135 % in the number ofhomicides, rather than the expected isometric increase of 100 %, as found, forexample, for the mortality due to car crashes. Here we present statisticalsigns of the social influence on the suicide occurrence in cities. Differentlyfrom homicides (superlinear) and fatal events in car crashes (isometric), wefind sublinear scaling behavior between the number of suicides and citypopulation, with allometric power-law exponents, $\beta = 0.836 \pm 0.009$ and$0.870 \pm 0.002$, for all cities in Brazil and US, respectively. The fact thatthe frequency of suicides is disproportionately small for larger cities revealsa surprisingly beneficial aspect of living and interacting in larger and morecomplex social networks.

Statistical Signs of Social Influence on Suicides