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Why is America's Suicide Rate Skyrocketing?
IWB ^ | Chris Black

Posted on 06/11/2018 4:13:01 PM PDT by davikkm

Motto: the future ain’t what it used to be.

Let me begin with some grim factoids: suicide is now the tenth leading cause of death in the United States. Every year, almost 45,000 Americans “blow their brains out” (most of the suicides involve firearms), and for every “successful” suicide, if I may use the word, 25 attempt and fail at it, fortunately. More than half suicides involve guns, hence the hyper-inflated gun crime stats used by the left to snuff the second amendment, and there are 123 suicides per day on average in the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave. White males make for 70 percent of suicides, as per 2016 data, while men overall die by suicide 3.53x more often than women, with middle aged white men in particular being susceptible to commit suicide.

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To: davikkm

The message of the world is, “Do what thou wilt,” there are no consequences or accountability. Live for today.....

See where that leads to after a generation or two.


41 posted on 06/11/2018 5:41:41 PM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: nwrep

...You left out honor

I’ll add it to my list


42 posted on 06/11/2018 5:41:45 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: davikkm

Pills and social media. Social media should be called alienation media or something, at least for some people. I feel bad about the kids who have never known anything else.

Freegards


43 posted on 06/11/2018 5:47:27 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: davikkm

Lack of logical training. only 1/2 of the suicidal are mentally ill. The rest would just be idiots who think, “You’ll be sorry when I’m gone” and forget that they will be too dead to get any satisfaction from that.


44 posted on 06/11/2018 5:59:40 PM PDT by married21 ( As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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To: davikkm
Why is America's Suicide Rate Skyrocketing?

Because it's just a matter of time.
Nature always takes care of her mistakes.

That's why 95% of all living things have gone extinct; hundred of thousands of years before nature's "human mistakes" had a chance to get blamed for the extinctions...

45 posted on 06/11/2018 6:02:56 PM PDT by publius911 ( If we let it, California will lead us all over the cliff.)
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To: Bonemaker

“Why is America’s suicide rate skyrocketing? Hope it’s because of Trump.”

I saw what you did there.

;^)


46 posted on 06/11/2018 6:05:36 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: davikkm

Hopefully, a lot of liberals are offing themselves due to Trump derangement syndrome.


47 posted on 06/11/2018 6:06:59 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: davikkm
Bourdain worshiped death. He said he was drawn to Asia Argento - who is a real-life succubus - because he had met the only woman who was more "drawn to death" than he was.

Whereas he divorced Ottavia the loving mother of his beautiful daughter, his only child; and now it's easy to see why, because she is a fitness devotee who, once married to Bourdain and had his access to money, spent hours at the gym ... and why not? Who would want to be around a death-worshipper?

Almost every show had some pivot to the deeply personal negative (and repulsive) narrative: the show in New Zealand where he rolled a 4x4 and should have been killed - he brushed it off waaay too complacently, joked about it in the narrative, but knew he had had a near-death experience; his obsession with the profane shithouse rat, "The Wire"s David Simon, who - like Argento - thinks of himself as a death-eater but reeks of self-loathing; and chronic references to the suicidal Hemingway, Hunter S. Thompson, and a plethora of rock reprobates that offed themselves.

48 posted on 06/11/2018 6:11:43 PM PDT by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: freedumb2003

“The two worst words in the English language when yoked: “just friends.”

Doesn’t work for wives.


49 posted on 06/11/2018 6:15:28 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: DesertRhino

Anomie is our enemy.


50 posted on 06/11/2018 6:17:01 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: davikkm

White males make for 70 percent of suicides, as per 2016 data, while men overall die by suicide 3.53x more often than women,

...

If it were the other way around there would be a huge political outcry.


51 posted on 06/11/2018 6:22:14 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: davikkm

Existentialism provides no purpose for life.


52 posted on 06/11/2018 6:25:33 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: davikkm

So there are more suicides than innocent blacks killed by cops?


53 posted on 06/11/2018 6:29:02 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: davikkm

If somebody is feeling depressed or even if they aren’t, this is a good place to start. No drugs and the book costs hardly anything.

Judging from the articles and comments on FR, I’d say a lot of people could use it. There’s a lot of exaggerated pessimism around here.

https://www.harpercollins.com/9780380810338/feeling-good/


54 posted on 06/11/2018 6:30:12 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Because so many in this country have rejected The Way, The Truth and The Life.


55 posted on 06/11/2018 6:30:37 PM PDT by Rodm
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To: davikkm
I was surprised by the stat the approx. 3x more men commit suicide than women. Other than veterans, I would have thought it was the other way around.

In many cases, I imagine, these suicides by men are probably preferable to the murder-suicides that many men commit, often due to the same stressors which trigger "mere" suicides. So if it weren't for many of these "mere" suicides by men, I imagine there would be significantly more murder-suicides occurring.

Men tend to have a big issue with possessiveness and being stripped of their "power", which often results in the devastating "if I can't have (the wife, the children, the girlfriend) then nobody will" impulse...

56 posted on 06/11/2018 6:34:17 PM PDT by sargon ("If the President doesn't drain the Swamp, the Swamp will drain the President.")
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To: Bonemaker

>>Doesn’t work for wives.<<

Tried it. They didn’t get along at all.


57 posted on 06/11/2018 6:50:45 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("We were designed as gardeners, not cubicle rats." (/robroys woman))
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To: davikkm

Hollywood and Television in general, Fake News plays a big part also.


58 posted on 06/11/2018 7:19:33 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: davikkm

Maybe because life has gotten to complex and multimedia brain washing convinces people if they aren’t the cream of the crop they’re worthless.


59 posted on 06/11/2018 7:19:58 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: Macoozie

>> The Good Lord cleansing the planet?

That would be Satan, or otherwise existence in its natural form.


60 posted on 06/11/2018 9:35:27 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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