Posted on 06/10/2004 1:35:29 PM PDT by TC Rider
A new report finds that suicidal young people are less likely to use firearms to take their own lives, but the survey finds little comfort in the trend because they are turning to more readily available methods.
In the last decade, suffocation -- notably hanging -- has overtaken firearms as the most common way for adolescents to kill themselves, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
The greatest change was among youngsters between 10 and 14 years old, where suicide by suffocation occurred twice as frequently as suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot. Firearms were the most common method before 1997, the report found.
Among those 15 to 19 years of age, however, suffocation suicides also increased, but firearms remained the method of choice in 2001.
In other findings, the CDC reported that young people who attempted suicide were four times as likely to have been involved in a fistfight in the previous year. However, a third survey found that those who committed a school-related suicide between 1994 and 1999 had no history of fighting or otherwise getting into trouble with the police.
The report in the CDC publication Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report had some good news: Overall, the suicide rate among people 10 to 19 years of age dropped from 6.2 per 100,000 people in 1992 to 4.6 per 100,000 in 2001.
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waiting for response from Sarah Brady and the million moms...
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Dorothy Parker- Resume'
Someone who wants to off themselves will find a way just as someone who wants to kill another person will find a way. How is that so hard to understand?
Oh, no. Think how much more deadly shooting yourself in the head fifteen times is than shooting yourself in the head only ten times.
GMTA. *smile*
Evil black Assault Rope.
At least it is a lot less "messy" that way.
I have always felt that the best way is to stand in the middle of the railroad tracks and stare at the headlights and listen to the horn.
Suicide = Permanent solution of a temporary problem.
Whoa! Just a minute appart!
Deadly high capacity Assault Rope.
Don't forget we need to ban Brokaw, Jennings, Rather, and all of those TV noose clowns.
Would they use this to grapple with their problems?
Good one! I had a psychiatrist ask me once if I had suicidal thoughts. I told her that if I killed myself, I would go to hell and that just would be redundant.
More proof that gun control is working. /sarcasm
I have a problem when the suicidal involve outside people.
My wife ran over a guy laying naked in the middle of the road at about 2:30AM. She still shivers when we drive through that stretch of road.
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