U.S. Suicide Rate Surges to a 30-Year High

[nightflight]

WASHINGTON — Suicide in the United States has surged to the highest levels in nearly 30 years, a federal data analysis has found, with increases in every age group except older adults. The rise was particularly steep for women. It was also substantial among middle-aged Americans, sending a signal of deep anguish from a group whose suicide rates had been stable or falling since the 1950s.

The suicide rate for middle-aged women, ages 45 to 64, jumped by 63 percent over the period of the study, while it rose by 43 percent for men in that age range, the sharpest increase for males of any age. The overall suicide rate rose by 24 percent from 1999 to 2014, according to the National Center for Health Statistics, which released the study on Friday.

The increases were so widespread that they lifted the nation’s suicide rate to 13 per 100,000 people, the highest since 1986. The rate rose by 2 percent a year starting in 2006, double the annual rise in the earlier period of the study. In all, 42,773 people died from suicide in 2014, compared with 29,199 in 1999.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html?_r=0

Tribal identity has its merits.

 

[PreachersWife2004]

and why wouldn't it? This is a culture that celebrates death via abortion and euthanasia.

 

[Arcangl86]

and why wouldn't it? This is a culture that celebrates death via abortion and euthanasia.

And war and capital punishment and embraces the absolute right to walk around with weapons at all time.

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html?_r=0

Tribal identity has its merits.

What is tribal identity?

 

[nightflight]

What is tribal identity?

What some now call, "community".

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

What some now call, "community".

Small communities have been dying out since the industrial age. The American idea of what a community is began to die when we began to flock to the cities to work in factories and quit farming as much. Scine all cities create alienation You get what we have now.

 

[JustOneWay]

and why wouldn't it? This is a culture that celebrates death via abortion and euthanasia.

You believe the suicide rate is increasing because of people celebrate abortion and euthanasia?

Any proof?

Seems more logical to believe times are tough and people falling on hard times have no hope and desire to live.

 

[JustOneWay]

and why wouldn't it? This is a culture that celebrates death via abortion and euthanasia.

Would you contribute the alarming rise in military suicides to a celebration of death via abortion and euthanasia?

 

[nightflight]

Would you contribute the alarming rise in military suicides to a celebration of death via abortion and euthanasia?

Maybe start a thread on military suicides?

 

[JustOneWay]

Maybe start a thread on military suicides?

Please get a clue and understand that military suicides in America are a part of the overall American suicide rate.

 

[nightflight]

Please get a clue and understand that military suicides in America are a part of the overall American suicide rate.

Military life (in an era of war) and civilian life are quite different and entail quite different experiences. You get a clue and start your own thread.

Glad to help.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

This happens when a society that refuses to address mental health issues meets one that puts low value on human life.

 

[brinny]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html?_r=0

Tribal identity has its merits.

Tragic.

 

[JustOneWay]

Military life (in an era of war) and civilian life are quite different and entail quite different experiences. You get a clue and start your own thread.

Glad to help.

You demonstrate ignorance on the subject for not understanding that suicides by military and ex military are part of the overall suicide rate in America.

The topic is American suicides. DUH!

 

[nightflight]

You demonstrate ignorance on the subject for not understanding that suicides by military and ex military are part of the overall suicide rate in America.

The topic is American suicides. DUH!

Yet a CTRL-F search of the word "military" in the article comes up with "0". Please let me know if I can inform you any further on the topic linked in the OP.

 

[JustOneWay]

Yet a CTRL-F search of the word "military" in the article comes up with "0". Please let me know if I can inform you any further on the topic linked in the OP.

Now you have fallen into a logic failure. I am sorry that you fail to understand that the suicides will generally be under the '
all age groups under 75 years"

 

[nightflight]

Now you have fallen into a logic failure. I am sorry that you fail to understand that the suicides will generally be under the '
all age groups under 75 years"

Military suicides in a time of war have factors that the civilian population doesn't. Good grief, does this really have to be explained? If you Google "military suicides" you will see this. But I don't count on you making the effort, you have too much involved in derailing this thread.

 

[GoldenBoy89]

Military suicides in a time of war have factors that the civilian population doesn't. Good grief, does this really have to be explained? If you Google "military suicides" you will see this. But I don't count on you making the effort, you have too much involved in derailing this thread.

Derailing a thread about suicide to discuss.... suicide?

 

[SummerMadness]

and why wouldn't it? This is a culture that celebrates death via abortion and euthanasia.

Is this another one of those arguments that's not based on data?

The abortion rate has been going down for decades, so how can you claim it is celebrated or related to suicide?

 

[nightflight]

Derailing a thread about suicide to discuss.... suicide?

Military suicide in a time of war shouldn't be equated with civilian suicide, though military current and ex can experience the same pressures as civilians, though the reverse isn't nearly as likely. The article presented didn't mention military suicide with its unique factors so it is really not good to conflate. And its unfair to military personnel.