Bush’s fault.
On the one hand, liberals love and push the idea of assisted-suicide. On the other hand, they blame guns for suicides. When a suicidal person doesn’t have a gun available, they frequently drive the wrong way on a freeway to take someone with them to the grave.
He didn't say it would be pleasant "fundamental transformation."
It’s a choice. Sad but, if someone is going to off themselves they will find a way to do it.
Notice that the data presented do not take into account the economic problems initiated by Obama and the Democrats around 2009 forward.
If we required permits for those wishing to commit suicide we could solve this problem.
Universal background checks, high capacity magazine bans, assault weapons bans........... /s
I don’t get it. Weren’t we promised if we got rid of religion and traditional values in this country, we’d all be happy?
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I see this as a complete social problem. People are not happy or content.
I surround myself with the most negative whiners, honestly. I cant get that low.
I don’t have much money, 9 kids, and a small house. I am much happier than people in a better financial situation and higher social standing.
I love my life, family, and friends. I have learned to embrace a little adversity. People are really miserable because they like to be miserable. They talk themselves right into it.
The markets haven’t really crashed, yet, and there’s been no repudiation of debt, yet.
I think there are several things contributing to many suicides.
The first of these is the lack of “a productive use of spirit”, which is an intentionally nebulous statement. To start with, children are raised with both unrealistic and unsatisfying expectations. That is, for example, most children will never be millionaires, but even if they do become millionaires, so what? Money is like alcohol, “the neutral spirit”.
People inherently know that each of us have “design specifications”, and we can be organized into groups based on what these are. And we have a choice to either embrace our programming, or resist it. Yet we cannot be trained to be something we are not, no matter how much someone thinks we can be. We might be able to do it somewhat, but never as well as someone born that way.
Likewise, people are trained about their role in society, whether or not they want they role or are equipped for it.
“You will grow up, get a job, get married, mortgage a house, have 2.3 children, then some time after they move out you will retire, then die.” This is pretty much the standard American model.
For many people some or all of this is a horrifying prospect that they don’t want. For others it is obvious that no matter how hard they try, they cannot get this, so will “fail at life”.
Society can be unforgiving, so if someone fouls up once, or is unlucky, they may be tarred for life and forbidden from doing and being who they want to be.
And many, of course, have physical and mental problems that make life a burden and a misery.
Only when you punch through all of this does existential angst really come into play, such as losing one’s faith, or feeling neglected or hated by “heaven” or the equivalent.
Not to downplay the trend in suicides but I saw these stats cited in another article and someone pointed out that fatalities from car crashes have been declining at a pretty good clip for some time now thanks to things like airbags and improvements in emergency medical care. So there’s another angle in play here.
The suicide rate for middle-aged men was 27.3 deaths per 100,000,
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No wonder I can’t find a date.