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Baby Boomers Are Killing Themselves At An Alarming Rate, Raising Question: Why?
The Washington Post ^ | June 4, 2013 | Tara Bahrampour

Posted on 06/04/2013 6:09:19 AM PDT by Biggirl

Last spring, Frank Turkaly tried to kill himself. A retiree in a Pittsburgh suburb living on disability checks, he was estranged from friends and family, mired in credit card debt and taking medication for depression, cholesterol, diabetes and high blood pressure.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aging; babyboomers; health; mentalillness; mentalillnesses; psychiatry; seniors; suicide
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To: xenob
No, you reap what you sow. Boomers got fat on the hog and left us to starve.

Wow...spoken like Philip Rearden..."left us to starve"...LOL

61 posted on 06/04/2013 7:05:49 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: tflabo

Thank-you.


62 posted on 06/04/2013 7:05:56 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: xenob

“Latchkey” children were referred to as far back as the ‘30s, at least. It is Millenials and Gen-Xers who voted for Obama and his spending at higher rates than did the Boomers.

And the Boomers certainly didn’t have anything to do with creating the Ponzi scheme that is Social Security. If anything, they were afraid to rein it in for fear of being called ingenerous to their parents and grandparents, who created the system.


63 posted on 06/04/2013 7:06:12 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: DoughtyOne

That is why having faith, friends, and interests are very important.


64 posted on 06/04/2013 7:09:16 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: 9YearLurker

AMEN.


65 posted on 06/04/2013 7:09:53 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl
Suicide is a number one warning on antidepressant drugs.

LLS

66 posted on 06/04/2013 7:10:20 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: umgud

I agree!


67 posted on 06/04/2013 7:10:52 AM PDT by angcat
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To: 9YearLurker
And the Boomers certainly didn’t have anything to do with creating the Ponzi scheme that is Social Security.

Forget about it...he's on a roll:


68 posted on 06/04/2013 7:12:24 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: Iron Munro

I think you’re exactly right. We remember a time when things were better. Our country is being taken from us, while we’re told to shut up and like it. And anyone with kids and grandkids has got to be filled with worry for what kind of hellhole this country will be for them.


69 posted on 06/04/2013 7:13:19 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: Biggirl

Yep, the first generation to be medicated, day cared, swapping homes through joint custody, and have their futures wasted through riotous living. Each generation is worse than the one before. Starting with the Boomers.


70 posted on 06/04/2013 7:13:57 AM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: bray
Life without God is an empty existence of chasing smoke and ash. Everything the world tells you is a lie.

This^^^

71 posted on 06/04/2013 7:14:35 AM PDT by Obadiah (What is twisted cannot be straightened...)
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To: Biggirl

You may be right! Once deterioration sets in it accelerates.


72 posted on 06/04/2013 7:14:46 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: Nea Wood

In the end, there will be angry blowback and it will not be pretty.


73 posted on 06/04/2013 7:15:02 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: Biggirl

Would be interesting to know just where in suburban Pittsburgh this guy lived. Some of the ex-steel towns in the Mon Valley are the most depressing places you could ever imagine.


74 posted on 06/04/2013 7:18:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: xenob
Boomers got fat on the hog and left us to starve.

What part of me working for the past 44 years qualifies as "fat on the hog"? Piss off xenob, your generalities are the work of a lazy intellect and your whining about how I'm screwing you is breaking my heart.

75 posted on 06/04/2013 7:18:10 AM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: Biggirl

You know BigGirl, it’s tough for a man to develop interests outside the home. If you’re married you work and spend time with family. You don’t go out with the guys. It’s problematic. It’s a good way to be led off the straight and narrow. You have a rift at home, and some opportunity pops up. It looks real enticing.

A lot of guys would rather stay home with the person they love. If you’ve been in a relationship for many years, you generally don’t have a big group of guys you hang out with.


76 posted on 06/04/2013 7:19:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Funny thing happened on the way to the Constitution burning, Lefties rights were Iviolated...)
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To: 9YearLurker

When I say, ‘need’, I’m not referring to capability. I’m referring to emotional closeness, Sunday night dinners sort of thing.


77 posted on 06/04/2013 7:20:22 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Biggirl
In the end, there will be angry blowback and it will not be pretty.

I don't know which I fear more...that it will happen, or that it won't happen. A part of me says, "Bring it on. Let's get it over with."

78 posted on 06/04/2013 7:21:10 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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To: Iron Munro

THANK YOU for getting it!


79 posted on 06/04/2013 7:23:15 AM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: tx_eggman
What part of me working for the past 44 years qualifies as "fat on the hog"? Piss off...

Thank you for this. As a baby boomer, I do get tired of the comments on FR blaming baby boomers for everything except tooth decay. There are good and bad people in all generations.

80 posted on 06/04/2013 7:24:18 AM PDT by Nea Wood (When life gets too hard to stand, kneel.)
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