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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'cuse me, I gotta go hork up a hairball after that one...
Oh year! Those assault guns spray bullets like a water hose.
/sarcasm
Nobody but the military and the police need that much rope!
High capacity semi-automatic carabiner magazine...
"What does it matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway"....
Agree totally.
Suicide is especially tough on train crews (am an old railroader).
Lots of railroad careers have been ended that way, engineers and conductors that couldnt cope with the emotional things. Seeing a family etc. that no power on earth could prevent you from killing them.
That will really tear your guts out
I would think that it is similiar for folks that drive trucks etc. etc.
Suicide by definition is a very selfish act.
LOL
As I told my niece and nephews, there is nothing so important in a young persons life that is worth suicide! High school can be crappy. Relationships can be crappy. It gets better! You'll get stronger!
As I told my niece and nephews, there is nothing so important in a young persons life that is worth suicide! High school can be crappy. Relationships can be crappy. It gets better! You'll get stronger!
It's called rope a dope
Oh sure. Great thing to say. Those people are having trouble enough, coping.
Go ahead, lay a liberal psychobabble guilt trip on them and really cheer them up.
Excellent news for the gun grabbers. They can trumpet that teen suicide by firearm has been drastically curtailed by reasonable gun safety legislation, and more reasonable common-sense controls can bring the numbers down more.
They just have to leave off the "hanging" part and they have a PR winner! They are the cultural heroes again!
I belong to a grief support group and some people have talked about their teens hanging themselves to get a high. It seems to be the "in" thing to do at some schools. A member's son died this way. She is on a crusade to warn other parents about this so called fad.
Whats this crap?
Suicide IS a selfish act and the people who choose this option are by definition selfish.
Leave it up to others to fix the mess they make.
Liberalism or conservatism has nothing to do with it.
Should take some of the Liberal-Socialist whacko heat off the firearm industry & place it squarely where it belongs.
...on rope makers.
Anything to avoid finding a job. |
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