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I was talking to this young lady yesterday. She has lost four friends and acquaintances from suicide in the past two months. Some of them had a lot going for them. She feels that people have lost hope these days.
One beautiful girl got drunk on New Years Eve and said she was going to jump off the balcony. Noyone took her seriously.....
Others seeing some type of epidemic or trend going on?
Suicides have always been grossly underreported due to the stigma. If you live in a city of say 150,000, look at the obits for a month and look at how many have no cause of death. I'd wager more than half are suicides.
Suicides have always been grossly underreported due to the stigma. If you live in a city of say 150,000, look at the obits for a month and look at how many have no cause of death. I'd wager more than half are suicides.
Causes of death are determined by the medical examiner/coroners office so I don't know how one would claim that they are under reported due to stigma.
I would say a lot of it is debt...... and add that to the fact that many people have lost meaning in their lives... extended families that used to provide support & meaning are scattered & shattered... people can't find work, and wages SUCK..... too many people on drugs (legal and illegal),, and drunk... no sense of belonging to a community. 99% of relationships seem to be dysfunctional. Plus there doesn't seem to be much hope for the future, in general. That's it in a nutshell, I think...
We have around 25 suicides annually just off the Golden Gate Bridge - and before you say anything about SF/CA, the majority are tourists who come here specifically to jump off the GGB. Has anyone seen the documentary "The Bridge?" It's both fascinating and incredibly sad at the same time.
That being said, I do think the economy would have something to do with rising suicide rates (if they have increased recently, which I don't know). There was also a string of gay teen suicides recently, mostly attributed to bullying in schools & online... now that one really gets me down.
With so many people crowded onto our planet, it's amazing we don't have thousands dying every day from playing catch with their kids and getting the ball caught in their mouth, blocking off the airway.
Infinite monkeys on infinite typewriters will reproduce all the works of Shakespeare without a typo--the power of huge numbers. Too bad huge numbers of people doesn't bring the economic prosperity we were promised, in return for the trillion ways overcrowding lowers our quality of life.
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