Posted on 08/15/2014 1:18:30 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Enjoyed your commentary.
For average people who have worked hard, been responsible, attained degrees, found good job opportunities, prospered, married and become parents - at the age when they feel they can relax and enjoy their efforts - UP JUMPS THE DEVIL - perhaps death of parents, or divorce and/or children leaving home. Both men and women feel validated by a successful career or business - so when those fail for external reasons - control of life is lost. The workplace is also a good substitute family for those who live alone or are separated from siblings and parents. In good economies you can hit the restart button, but in these troubled times - we get no help from the ruling class and there definitely is a lack of national optimism.
We’re getting by okay. It’s our granddaughter’s future we’re really concerned about.
In the North Alabama county where I live we have had a rash of suicides by 30-something men. In a county of about 80,000, there was a day a couple of weeks ago where there were two obituaries in one day of such young men that I found later to be suicide.
I am a math moron, but something tells me that one could make some sort of graph that indicates a correlation between the rise in suicides and the decline in participation in religious practices.
I am a Boomer, as well, and I have not been too proud of a great many things that our generation is known for. (The brave men who fought in Viet Nam would be our great exception to that.)
How about focusing too much on themselves and ignoring their relationship with God?
Obviously the requires a massive federal program, increased taxes, and curtailed liberty.
Hate to say, but I think you're spot on. I had been mentioning this to people for a long time -- even posted above article to a friend on FB.
As a lower-end Boomer (born in the late 1950s) I don't relate well to the older, leftover hippies, whom I truly find kooky. Suicide is the ultimate narcissism. The fear of aging & the moral relativism, which has led to complete amorality, will drive many in that direction. Others might indirectly self-destruct through drugs, etc.
They will go out in style, though -- have parties, invite friends. Someone did this a few years ago after she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Like Socrates who drank the hemlock.
Well, no. That is the number per year out of the total population, not the cumulative risk over one's lifetime. In 2011, the last year for which final statistics are available, about one in 63 deaths in the U.S. was officially classified as a suicide. If one includes instances of single car crashes and suicide by cop, it is probably higher.
Even cumulative with .03% a year stacked up over a lifetime it still means you’re probably not dieing of suicide. It’s still not coming anywhere near things like the flu and nobody thinks that’s a crisis. It’s just an overused word.
Agreed. See my tagline.
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