Higher temperatures increase suicide rates in the United States and Mexico

By Marshall Burke, F. González, Patrick Baylis, S. Heft-Neal, C. Baysan, Sanjay Basu, Solomon Hsiang. Nature Climate Change, 2018

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Extreme Weather and Climate Change: Population Health and Health System Implications (2021, background): “(17) estimated that under a high GHG emission pathway, there could be 9,000 to 40,000 additional suicide deaths throughout Mexico and the United States by 2050.”
Global urban population exposure to extreme heat (2021, background): “Accordingly, our exposure thresholds are a conservative estimator yet comparable globally across spatial scales of urban population exposure to extreme heat to capture the harmful social (73), health (1), economic (11, 12), and potential political consequences (74) of exposure to extreme heat.”
The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review (2020, background): “Indeed, being exposed to extreme heat can lead to physical and psychological fatigue (53)—there is a clear association between warming temperatures and rising suicide rates, especially in an early summer ‘peak’ (56).”