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The US suicide rate is up 33% since 1999
CNN ^ | June 20, 2019 | Jacqueline Howard

Posted on 06/20/2019 5:02:38 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff

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1 posted on 06/20/2019 5:02:38 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I blame the news media.


2 posted on 06/20/2019 5:04:43 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I heard a joke the other day that the CNN poll showed . . . No that was it. The CNN poll.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Maybe it’s hard-core libs killing themselves in their despair over Trumpitler. Wonder if we could get him a few more terms....


3 posted on 06/20/2019 5:05:04 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: BipolarBob

I blame the internet. Pretty tough to keep up with all of the perfect lives on Facebook and the perfect bodies on Instagram.


4 posted on 06/20/2019 5:06:30 PM PDT by 21twelve (!)
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Hmmm.....Let’s see, since 1999:

1) Lame duck President in Bill Clinton ducks off from impeachment removal, he bombs Kosovo, ignores Bin Laden

2) Deadlocked 2000 election results in paralysis

3) 9/11/2001

4) Endless wars in Iraq/Afghanistan

5) Katrina

6) Obama and the Sharptonist BLM talk

7) Demonizing the right

8) Wage stagnation

What do you expect?


5 posted on 06/20/2019 5:08:05 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: BipolarBob

I agree. The liberal “media” and our so-called “schools”. I wonder how many of these suicides had bought into their programmers’ BS about the coming “climate change apocalypse”.


6 posted on 06/20/2019 5:09:09 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

so, we’re all NOT going to die, only 33%


7 posted on 06/20/2019 5:09:37 PM PDT by dontreadthis (A TIMELINE OF TREASON on Profile Page)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

Two main factors.

Apostasy. Loss of belief in and relationship with God

Tyranny. The rise of the technocratic police state.


8 posted on 06/20/2019 5:11:51 PM PDT by grumpygresh
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Add another factor: hopelessness among unemployed white males over 50 years of age.


9 posted on 06/20/2019 5:13:20 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: BipolarBob

The rate is still tiny when you look at the actual numbers. Drugs, PTSD are major factors.


10 posted on 06/20/2019 5:18:36 PM PDT by rstrahan
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To: BipolarBob

because CNN SUCKS


11 posted on 06/20/2019 5:19:26 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RegulatorCountry

The best thing I can do for poor people is to keep from becoming one of them. Same with my attitude for others. Suicide should be legal. Libertarian dittos.


12 posted on 06/20/2019 5:20:26 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

CONgress to busy trying to dump Trump they don’t have time for crap like suicides. Unless.it involves gun legislation.


13 posted on 06/20/2019 5:22:03 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: RegulatorCountry

The best thing I can do for poor people is to keep from becoming one of them. Same with my attitude for others. Suicide should be legal. Libertarian dittos.


14 posted on 06/20/2019 5:22:04 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: BipolarBob

Yep, the Ministry of Propaganda and the Ministry of Education.
Making people believe things that aren’t true can have adverse consequences.


15 posted on 06/20/2019 5:22:19 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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2 busy. 😉
16 posted on 06/20/2019 5:23:12 PM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: BipolarBob

I think you’re right!

24 hour cable OPINION news is depressing no matter which outlet or channel is viewed.

Of course, a steady diet of lies and distortions can’t be good for anyone, but news itself most often relishes tragedies; the bigger the better. Death, disaster, mayhem, by humans or weather.

Politics is 24 hour cable OPINION news’ life blood and it’s blood sport.


17 posted on 06/20/2019 5:24:35 PM PDT by onyx
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

SUICIDE IS PAINLESS ~ MASH
https://youtu.be/CVBATYWFKp8


18 posted on 06/20/2019 5:27:29 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I blame drugs. They destroy motivation. They ruin health. They inflict poverty. They are a dead end.


19 posted on 06/20/2019 5:28:35 PM PDT by Rapscallion (If they are not for Trump, they are against him. Fire them.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I wonder how closely this tracks with the encouragement of perversion by the media .


20 posted on 06/20/2019 5:30:49 PM PDT by libertylover (Democrats hated Lincoln too.)
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