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It is way over due IMO, better then warehousing old people that do not want to live any longer.
Not sure I especially agree with you there, scooter.
Every senior I know would spend his children's inheritance for one more sunrise. There comes an age in every person where opening your eyes and seeing the sun in the morning is a great blessing. The majority of seniors die with all their facilities intact. There are also humans who suffer badly during their final days. We humans are hard wired to fight for life right up to the last breath. We are programmed to experience every moment life has given us. That was our assignment when we were sent here. I don't believe in end dates on humans, self imposed or otherwise. I think our society would be diminished if we made it an easy choice to die. Perhaps the decision to end your life being made by your power of attorney or other entity. No thank you.
Well between 1999-2010 we managed to have one of the biggest terrorist attacks on our country, two wars, and a collapsing economy. Anyone could of told you that we were gonna see a rise in suicides during that decade.
It's been a tough decade. The wars, economic collapse in 2007-08, people losing their houses, jobs, the recession.
There are a lot of people who did everything right but lost their home and job anyway, and I can tell you it can be very depression to be unemployed in a country where anyone receiving unemployment benefits is shamed with names like "lazy", "moocher", "freeloader" and "weak". When you turn on the TV all you see is politicians arguing how we need to cut their benefits, because they encourage people to be unemployed. People who have nevee lost a job have no idea how hurtful those kinds of comments can be. They can make you feel worthless.
Having said that, our suicide rates were so low that even a small raise, would seem large as a percentage. If we had two suicides last year, and this year we had three, it would mean a 50% increase. What I found most alarming in the study was that among people over 50, the increase was over 50%. Is it because they know they have nothing for retirement? No future?
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Interesting chart, the white suicide rate is the only one showing any real increase. It also shows the ramp up starting in 2006 before the economic colapse at what would be considered the peak of the economic bubble.
What is very interesting to me is that blacks and hispanics do not seem to commit suicide at the rate that whites do. Looking at that map, all of the dark shaded areas are very white dominated areas (the mountain west, Appalachia). Looking at the Deep South (where 30% of the population is African American), there is nothing but white shaded counties.
Indian reservations have horrendous suicide rates and may be skewing the results for those low population areas.
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