According to statistics, about 5000 elderly people commit suicide in Japan every year, accounting for 3/10 of the number of suicides, which can be called the big country of elderly suicide in the world. Among them, the suicide rate of divorced men is 8 times that of those with spouses, and the suicide rate of divorced women is 4 times that of those with spouses.
The view that widowhood and loneliness are the important causes of suicide among the elderly in Japan is directly supported by the above paragraph.