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Suicide Rising in Middle-Age Adults
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| May 02, 2013
| Michael Smith
Posted on 05/02/2013 4:13:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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You know...with the world going rapidly down the crapper....I can see how an 55+ person whose personal life has fallen apart might consider this an option.
Somebody whose is pushing 60 years old might just conclude that he is too old to start again and that there is no point in trying.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:13:50 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
When one gets to be middle aged, they are finally waking up to the lies our government is spinning.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:19:42 PM PDT
by
bgill
(The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
To: bgill
Yes. And mature enough to see that there is nothing can be done about now.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:21:11 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:24:01 PM PDT
by
GOP Poet
To: BenLurkin
Just wait till ObamaCare kicks in. Life will be very cheap.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:24:14 PM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: BenLurkin
Indeed. Without Christ, I don’t know how I could go on. When you see your home foreclosed and your job exported and your retirement savings stolen, only faith in Christ makes it worth getting up and starting over.
I wonder if they added the category of “suicide by cop”, the numbers might be even higher. Folks figure out that if they can die and still not default the life insurance policy, at least their family can cash in at their passing.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:26:56 PM PDT
by
OrangeHoof
(Our economy won't heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
To: BenLurkin
I understand, given the uncertain times we live in. Many are unemployed with few, if any, prospects. Many have lost their homes. And those who are doing well financially are waiting for the other shoe to drop. They worry that their nest egg will be confiscated by the dictator. And whatever is left might become worthless.
Of course, none of this concerns the Gangsta-in-Chief. More of us who off ourselves means fewer to burden the state. That’s what Obamacare is all about — death.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:33:52 PM PDT
by
BobL
(Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
To: fatnotlazy
Bump, for hopefully more readers.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:34:51 PM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unneccesary.)
To: BobL
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:36:54 PM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unneccesary.)
To: real saxophonist
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:41:53 PM PDT
by
BobL
(Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
To: BobL
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:43:50 PM PDT
by
MileHi
( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
To: BobL
Of course it’s guns. If there were no guns, there’d be no suicide.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:45:17 PM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(If something is TRULY 'common sense', then a law about it is unneccesary.)
To: BenLurkin
Men in their fifties have always been a high risk group. This stat must be picking up an increase among the younger members of the cohort.
To: OrangeHoof
I believe that “in the commission of a criminal act” voids many life insurance policies.
Very glad you’re sticking by Christ! Still a tough row to hoe — getting up each morning, going about your business — but having a Divine Inspiration makes all the difference in the end!
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:52:04 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
FR is funded solely by the freedom loving folks who love and use it.
Stand with Free Republic.
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posted on
05/02/2013 4:57:46 PM PDT
by
RedMDer
(May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
To: real saxophonist
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posted on
05/02/2013 5:15:22 PM PDT
by
BobL
(Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
To: BobL
“The increase in suffocation as a method is worrisome, the agency noted, because most attempts using that method result in death.”
Anyone care to help me out, what is the above trying to say?
What am I missing?!
To: AllAmericanGirl44
He’s saying it’s better for other methods to be tried, because they have a lower death rate. Suffocation death rate is high(est?)
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posted on
05/02/2013 6:23:10 PM PDT
by
Persevero
(Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
To: AllAmericanGirl44
I’m not sure what I’m saying, except that psych drug use has EXPLODED just as suicides have significantly climbed. Some blame the increase in gun ownership - I don’t - I blame the drugs.
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posted on
05/02/2013 6:45:35 PM PDT
by
BobL
(Look up "CSCOPE" if you want to see something really scary)
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