Posted on 05/02/2013 4:13:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Suicide rates among middle-aged adults rose by nearly 30% over a 12-year period, the CDC reported.
From 1999 through 2010, the annual age-adjusted suicide rate among those 35 through 64 rose from 13.7 to 17.6 per 100,000 population, the agency reported in the May 3 issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
The 28.4% increase -- statistically significant at P<0.001 -- was accompanied by changes in the mechanism of suicide.
While firearms remained the most common method, the proportion of suicides by suffocation or poisoning grew more quickly over time, the agency reported, based on data from the National Vital Statistics System.
In 2009, the annual rate of suicide by gun was 7.2 per 100,000, which rose 14.4% to 8.3 per 100,000 in 2010.
But suffocation suicide – mainly by hanging – rose 81.3%, from 2.3 to 4.1 per 100,000. And poisoning – mainly by drug overdose – rose 24.4%, from 3.0 to 3.8 per 100,000.
The increase in suffocation as a method is worrisome, the agency noted, because most attempts using that method result in death.
The CDC reported last year that suicide had overtaken motor vehicle accidents as the most common cause of injury deaths in the U.S.
(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...
What am I missing?!
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There are immediately lethal methods of suicide like gunshot and hanging.
And there are less lethal means like pills and cutting wrists.
The less lethal means give time for a rescue.
“Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.”
Gomez and Morticia Addams had a lifetime subscription.
(sorry)
Anyway, I’m soon going to be 65 and wondering if my fellow baby boomers who were told to tune in, turn on, & drop out around 1968 are now discovering the emptiness of that time as well as its empty promises.
Thank the Lord for the saving grace of His Son my Savior!
HEY-HEY,
HO-HO,
Commie Obama
Has got to GO!
HEY-HEY,
HO-HO,
Commie Obama
Has got to GO!
HEY-HEY,
HO-HO,
Commie Obama
Has got to GO!
I tend to agree. Such a method to their madness, I’m quite sure they figured these things into their future vision of life.
Even if they hang themselves, or OD on drugs, it’s because of guns. Don’t you get it?
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