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US suicides hit an all-time high last year
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:31 pm
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:31 pm
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NEW YORK (AP) — About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which posted the numbers, has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year, but available data suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II.
“There’s something wrong. The number should not be going up,” said Christina Wilbur, a 45-year-old Florida woman whose son shot himself to death last year.
Experts caution that suicide is complicated, and that recent increases might be driven by a range of factors, including higher rates of depression and limited availability of mental health services.
But a main driver is the growing availability of guns, said Jill Harkavy-Friedman, senior vice president of research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
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U.S. suicides steadily rose from the early 2000s until 2018, when the national rate hit its highest level since 1941. That year saw about 48,300 suicide deaths — or 14.2 for every 100,000 Americans.
The rate fell slightly in 2019. It dropped again in 2020, during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Some experts tied that to a phenomenon seen in the early stages of wars and natural disasters, when people pull together and support each other.
But in 2021, suicides rose 4%. Last year, according to the new data, the number jumped by more than 1,000, to 49,449 — about a 3% increase vs. the year before. The provisional data comes from U.S. death certificates and is considered almost complete, but it may change slightly as death information is reviewed in the months ahead.
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Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:32 pm to RLDSC FAN
They’re counting those who took the jab.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:35 pm to RLDSC FAN
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But a main driver is the growing availability of guns
And there it is.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:35 pm to RLDSC FAN
Just a symptom of the dissolution of our culture
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:36 pm to RLDSC FAN
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“There’s something wrong. The number should not be going up,” said Christina Wilbur, a 45-year-old Florida woman whose son shot himself to death last year.
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But a main driver is the growing availability of guns, said Jill Harkavy-Friedman, senior vice president of research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Always have an angle.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:39 pm to RLDSC FAN
Man look at that chart in that story. Goes relatively sideways from the 70s all the way to 2003 and then starts exponentially increasing.
MySpace came out in 2003
MySpace came out in 2003
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:39 pm to RLDSC FAN
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But a main driver is the growing availability of guns, said Jill Harkavy-Friedman, senior vice president of research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Oh frick off. If anything, guns and ammo are way harder to find in stock now than pre-Obama days.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:39 pm to RLDSC FAN
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But a main driver is the growing availability of guns, said Jill Harkavy-Friedman, senior vice president of research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
bullshite.
People have been isolated and home-bound. The internet/remote society we live in furthers that isolation. There are young adults out there that can't define a distinction between their online-gaming persona and their real life.
The media push division and hate. These people are taught to believe they are a square peg trying to fit into a round world. The truth is that it takes hard work and perseverance.
This blood is on our leaders. All of them. Guns have been around for centuries.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:41 pm to Pendulum
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MySpace
Social media has made everything worse. We’d all be happier if it never existed.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:42 pm to Btrtigerfan
Yep. White people be killing themselves like crazy these days!
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:44 pm to RLDSC FAN
Now compare the suicide rates of males vs females. It’s MUCH higher in males. I wonder why that is? Probably because we have a mental health crisis among young men today and no one wants to help them.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
If you’re going to include the quote about guns, at least include the rest for context purposes:
It’s simply that if someone that wants to commit suicide, likelihood is far higher that they’re going to be success with a gun versus hanging or medication.
And gun sales, at least here, have definitely gone up.
That all said, it’s more about educating people about removing those means (or locking them up) when you have some one in your household who is suicidal.
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But a main driver is the growing availability of guns, said Jill Harkavy-Friedman, senior vice president of research at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Suicide attempts involving guns end in death far more often than those with other means, and gun sales have boomed — placing firearms in more and more homes.
It’s simply that if someone that wants to commit suicide, likelihood is far higher that they’re going to be success with a gun versus hanging or medication.
And gun sales, at least here, have definitely gone up.
That all said, it’s more about educating people about removing those means (or locking them up) when you have some one in your household who is suicidal.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:45 pm to RLDSC FAN
It’ll continue to increase
Covid broke people mentally and financially
Just face it guys. This country has gone to hell in a handbasket
But most of y’all just care about your college football
Covid broke people mentally and financially
Just face it guys. This country has gone to hell in a handbasket
But most of y’all just care about your college football
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:48 pm to RLDSC FAN
Now fo the stats for the people that killed OTHERS before killing themselves.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:48 pm to RLDSC FAN
Child’s play! ever since the DEA started cracking down on pain clinics we were at 28k in 2008 in overdoses we are hitting 125/130k every year. Give the people back the pharmaceutical pain killers and Xanax not counterfeit Chinese crap that kills.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:49 pm to JasonDBlaha
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we have a mental health crisis among young men today and no one wants to help them.
Toxic masculinity.
The Patriarchy.
Misogyny.
It's a war on masculine men. Men that would not comply. Men that would fight. Men that would kill.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 7:51 pm to JasonDBlaha
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Now compare the suicide rates of males vs females. It’s MUCH higher in males. I wonder why that is? Probably because we have a mental health crisis among young men today and no one wants to help them.
It’s because men more often successfully commit versus attempt. It’s been that way for a long time. It’s more likely a man will use a more lethal source like a gun versus pills or something not as lethal.
Women tend to have more unsuccessful attempts.
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