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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?
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 09 2018, @04:09AM
"purposeful activity with regular experiences of success"
"good relationships"
"adequate and regular sleep"
"ability to avoid destructive social entanglements, while remaining receptive to positive encounters"
Hard in a fucked up society going down the drains, or bluntly, a suicidal society. Specially the "purposeful" one.
Now I noticed you copy pasted from HN, yeah, they (well, you) are obsessed with nutrituion and drugs, and too many times they have the blind spot about how HN projects/news/people are a big part of where society is going. Y Combinator, Palantir, start up and exit plan, gig economy, post scarcity (solve that for infinite greed)... that kind of crap. Or as JWZ prefers, http://i.imgur.com/32R3qLv.png [imgur.com] (this is what you get when jwz.org is linked at HN).
BTW, Robin Williams seem to be taken as idol that went mad... instead of someone that, seeing the end in the near future, decides when and how, instead of losing control and "enjoying" the side effects of medical treatment. He was diagnosed from what I read, and he picked his path instead of, being polite, wandering. Weeks ago a 104yo Australian biologist David Goodall travelled to Switzerland for similar reasons: his life, his choice for an end.
Sorry if you are trying to get the rest of HN to "behave", and not "one of them". Yet it reminds me about that time a documentary about weapon factory and one interview where an operartor was assembling new stock, and of course, justifying the job. At least it wasn't mines (or researching new war chemicals), just ammo.
Shorter, by another AC https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=25105&page=1&cid=667666 [soylentnews.org] FUCK GET IT ALREADY