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posted by janrinok on Friday June 08 2018, @07:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the reports-of-my-death-are-not-exaggerated dept.

The U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention (CDC) released a new Vital Signs report on Thursday, 7 June, 2018.

In the press release about the new report, the CDC states that:

Suicide rates have been rising in nearly every state, according to the latest Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In 2016, nearly 45,000 Americans age 10 or older died by suicide. Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death and is one of just three leading causes that are on the rise.
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Researchers found that more than half of people who died by suicide did not have a known diagnosed mental health condition at the time of death. Relationship problems or loss, substance misuse; physical health problems; and job, money, legal or housing stress often contributed to risk for suicide. Firearms were the most common method of suicide used by those with and without a known diagnosed mental health condition.

Are any Soylentils contemplating suicide? Do you know anyone who has attempted or succeeded in taking their own life? Why do you think suicide rates are on the rise?


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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @07:55PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @07:55PM (#690472)

    flat wages: less money is less opportunity, less opportunity is less comunity, all the strife might come down to less opportunity to get it right, more time struggking with what ever is left to play with

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @10:33PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @10:33PM (#690561)

    Less money, but most things that you buy are a lot less expensive now, both relatively and absolutely, than they were fifty years ago.

    • (Score: 2) by rcamera on Saturday June 09 2018, @02:38AM (2 children)

      by rcamera (2360) on Saturday June 09 2018, @02:38AM (#690647) Homepage Journal
      not sure which orifice you pulled that out of, but it must have been quite a spectacle. the things you're thinking of probably didn't exist 50 years ago, whippersnapper.

      latest consumer expenditure numbers (2016 [bls.gov]) indicate that the largest average annual expenditures per household were housing @ $18,886, transportation @ $9,049, and food @ $7,203. do you really think those cost less relatively OR absolutely than 50 years ago? average household income in 1968 (50 years ago) was under $8,000. i'll let you do the math on that one.
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @11:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 08 2018, @11:34PM (#690585)

    No correlating evidence for these any of these claims wrt suicide rates.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @02:01AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @02:01AM (#690633)

    Not to mention employers that simply treat employees as unappreciated worthless dirt. Employers these days expect 24hour a day dick sucking service, tighten the thumb screws a little more each day, want a single person that does the work of 5, would happily give American jobs to some brain damaged monkey in India, they don't even think to ask if we would work for the same number of peanuts. And this is all considered standard operating procedure. Soaring health insurance costs and taxes. Yea, what's not to be depressed about?