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More Americans Now Commit Suicide Than Die in Car Crashes as Miserable Economy Takes Its Toll
The Daily Mail (UK.) ^ | 22 September 2012 | Daily Mail Reporter

Posted on 09/22/2012 10:38:53 PM PDT by DogByte6RER

$56 million suicide prevention programme launched as study reveals more Americans take their own lives than die in car crashes

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Suicide is a bigger killer than car crashes, according to an alarming new study.

The number of people dying from suicide has drastically increased, while car accident deaths haven lessened, making suicide the leading cause of injury death.

Suicides via falls or poisoning have risen significantly and experts fear there could be en more going unrecognised, specifically in cases of overdose.

'Suicides are terribly under-counted,' said Ian Rockett, author of the study, published on Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.

'I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe. We have a situation that has gotten out of hand.'

He added that his goal is to see the same attention paid to other injuries as has been paid to traffic injuries.

The results were compiled using National Centre for Health Statistics data gathered from 2000 to 2009.

Researchers noted a 25 per cent decrease in car accident deaths, medicalxpress.com reported, while deaths from falls rose 71 per cent, from poisoning 128 per cent and from suicide 15 per cent.

Higher automobile standards were credited for the traffic deaths drop, with harsher penalties for underage drinking and failing to wear seat belts named as contributing factors.

Previous research has suggested that suicide rates go up during recessions and times of economic crisis.

'Economic problems can impact how people feel about themselves and their futures as well as their relationships with family and friends,' Feijun Luo of CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention told Bloomberg.

'Prevention strategies can focus on individuals, families, neighborhoods or entire communities to reduce risk factors.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
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To: cmj328

Yep.. 0bama is the Jack Kevorkian of America.. problem is... we the patient didn`t want to be put to death..


21 posted on 09/23/2012 2:36:19 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Record high turnout is our hope for sending 0bama home. Pray hard!!!)
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To: dalereed

Make it a capital offense. /s


22 posted on 09/23/2012 2:40:56 AM PDT by Cvengr (Adversity in life and death is inevitable. Thru faith in Christ, stress is optional.)
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To: generally
Maybe it’s just that car crashes are down because no one can afford gas any more. /s

My understanding has always been that there is a direct correlation between the price of gas and the traffic fatality rate.

23 posted on 09/23/2012 2:58:06 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: GraceG
A suicide prevention programme is being launched under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, backed by $56 million of federal money.
24 posted on 09/23/2012 3:30:18 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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To: DogByte6RER

You all laugh when the military is having an epidemic of suicides. If anything, suicide is under-reported. Especially among the elderly.

I love sarcasm, but just can’t do it in regards to despair, Satan’s most prized weapon.


25 posted on 09/23/2012 3:48:51 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: DogByte6RER
Take their guns, pills and hangable surfaces. Then put up nets for jumpers. There's not a problem out there government can't solve...


26 posted on 09/23/2012 4:14:51 AM PDT by varyouga
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To: DogByte6RER

In the Soviet Union they had a lot of psychiatric cases. They would help you to think better. Doesn’t Obamacare include psychiatric health?


27 posted on 09/23/2012 4:31:56 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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28 posted on 09/23/2012 4:49:37 AM PDT by devolve (----- ------- ------------LET*S_RUN_A_POLITE_LOSER_CAMPAIGN-------- ----------------------------)
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To: DogByte6RER

Hope and Change


29 posted on 09/23/2012 4:53:06 AM PDT by TMA62 (Al Sharpton - The North Korea of race relations)
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To: Jeff Chandler

There’s no rationale for known suicides to be up only 15%, but greater increases in things like poisoning (from increasingly bizarre drug use?) and falls (more elderly, more drug use, etc.) to be attributable to suicides.


30 posted on 09/23/2012 4:57:23 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DogByte6RER

Harold and Maude both voted for Obama

TT


31 posted on 09/23/2012 5:13:52 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Radical islam is islam. Moderate islam is the Trojan Horse.)
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To: DogByte6RER
BARACKWARD

32 posted on 09/23/2012 5:56:30 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: TMA62

>> Hope and Change

Your Hope has been Redistributed. Here’s your Change.


33 posted on 09/23/2012 5:57:13 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: This Just In

Depends who does the stats. We have ‘tresspasser incidents’ every week, lately. And they usually choose rush hour!


34 posted on 09/23/2012 6:01:37 AM PDT by conductor john (from jersey)
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To: 9YearLurker

Poisoning and falls are a separate category of accidental or unintentional deaths, not suicides. Probably due to an aging population, greater use of prescription medications, maybe more older folks living alone etc.


35 posted on 09/23/2012 6:09:06 AM PDT by erlayman
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To: cmj328

I prefer to call it “obamacide”. That is basically what voters will be doing if they put “him” in for another 4 years. “Nobody sees the wizard. No way, no how.”

Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.


36 posted on 09/23/2012 6:19:07 AM PDT by rktman
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To: Ezekiel
"Considering that Obama is as the angel of death, a demon of desolation... He's the ideal head of the RAT party, a veritable Satan's workshop of plague, perversion, and profanation. "

Indeed:

Obama Victory-Day, Illinois Lottery 666 in Chicago

37 posted on 09/23/2012 6:38:36 AM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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To: DogByte6RER

Obviously suicide. The victim repeatedly stabbed himself in the back before jumping off the bridge.


38 posted on 09/23/2012 6:41:26 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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To: DogByte6RER

Bump


39 posted on 09/23/2012 6:42:58 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: dalereed

They will also shoot you to keep you from doing it yourself....


40 posted on 09/23/2012 6:44:33 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
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