Something in the water or air is causing a huge increase in despair throughout the nation. Did it start in Washington DC???
Your cavalier dismissal of this phenomenon because of the .03 percentage shows a callous disregard for our fellow Americans. These are citizens, neighbors, friends and family members who are perhaps unable to cope with the destruction of this Nation.
Many FReepers’ posts reflect how far we have fallen and they are despondent, however, FReepers will never surrender.
It’s not a callous disregard for anybody. It’s showing an understanding of basic math and English. Yes, on an individual basis, people killing themselves is very sad and unfortunate, and hurts the people around them. But that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a statistically insignificant number. Do we have a flu crisis in America? It kills 5 times as many people every year as suicide, but nobody considers that a crisis, because we understand that people get sick and not everybody is going to make it and 150,000 people out of 311 million really isn’t that much.
3/1000 of 1% of the population is just not a crisis. It’s a few thousand sad events.