I'm not sure that there are statistics about this simply because people often won't tell people why they are dying or committing suicide. But my own thought on the subject is both are equal in the causation of deaths worldwide.
When I look back upon my religious training as a child (and my parents were ministers of a Christian Church in Los Angeles from the time I was 6 to 12 years old I see this time as both the best and the worst time of my life because of what it did to the rest of my life.
By the time I was 21 I had been asked to leave my religion in 1969 because I was too progressive in my ideas. In other words I was against the Viet Nam war because friends were being drafted and killed within a couple of weeks of going to the Viet Nam war then and I thought that was both horrific and stupid.
And I also see how marriage can end your life too if you are with the wrong person at that time. In my 2nd marriage the first 7 years of that marriage I was happier than I had ever been in my life but the 2nd 7 years were the most unhappy I have ever been in life.
One doesn't think of marriage as being a lonely time but the loneliest most miserable time of my life was likely the last 7 years of my 2nd marriage.
However, by 1994 we had broken up and I was remarried by December of 1995 which has been the best last 30 years so far this year.
So, who you are married to and (are you compatible and happy together) is really important in a marriage.
Also, have you suffered enough in life to actually appreciate a really good marriage partner when you find one?
I was 46 when I met my present wife in 1994 and so I had definitely suffered enough in my first two marriages to appreciate someone actually perfect for me to be with the last 30 years of my life since then.
Life is short.
If you don't do what you need to do to stay alive and be happy then you are dead anyway that you look at it.
Stay alive and have a good life if you can.
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