Spike in Suicides in Brown County Worries Leaders (WI)

Wisconsin State Journal via AP Wire ^ | January 8, 2006 | Staff Writer from AP

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Man. I hope people aren't killing themselves over our cr@ppy football season, and the possible loss of Favre next season!

[pissant]

I think the thought of them retaining Favre after this year's performance may be the cause.

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Must be a hangover effect from November 2004.

Or it could be that the DOW hit 11,000 today, thereby bringing great credit to the Bush Administration.

Either way, the Dims can keep killing themselves as far as I am concerned.

[July 4th]

My first thought as well. Bad Packers season.

[George Smiley]

What's going on in our community that is making people end their lives?

It's the newspaper articles reporting them. Ask anybody who's ever worked at a newspaper in a college town.

One happens, it gets reported, and you end up with a small cluster of them fairly quickly, as at any given time a portion of the population is depressed, and a subset there of is SERIOUSLY depressed.

The reporting just reinforces those feelings.

[bkepley]

Is it ... the doomsday reporting that we have every day, everything is bad, everything is going to be bad and it's never going to get better?

Good point. I wonder what the statistics would be on party affiliation. Democrats believe that in every way imaginable things have never been worse.

[Doogle]

Is it ... the doomsday reporting that we have every day, everything is bad, everything is going to be bad and it's never going to get better?'

..*Shruggs*...maybe it's the NYT'S ...maybe it's the DOW going over 11,000 today....maybe the cheesehead hats are too tight, maybe this quack miscounted?

Doogle

[Roverman2K]

Negativity does have its price.

[toddlintown]

They received their property tax bills.

[moonman]

'What's going on in our community that is making people end their lives'

It's called .... W-I-N-T-E-R. People in the colder climates have a high suicide rate during the winter months. Everything looks dead outside their windows and it is very depressing to more than a few.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"They received their property tax bills."

LOL! Good one. :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

You've probably got something there. I get a little squirrely up here in the winter, though I don't suffer any symptoms of depression. Hard to believe the doctor (coroner) or the suicide hotline lady wouldn't make that connection! Especially the suicide lady. Maybe she's not very good after all? *Rolleyes*

The sun hadn't been out for 14 days straight until yesterday. I spent most of the day outside chopping, hauling and stacking firewood, just to have something to do outside!

[desertlily]

Maybe the Pharmaceutical Companies have reached their State's physicians and everybody's on meds?

[theDentist]

We hit 11,000 today? Yee-haw!

[Emmet Fitzhume]

Yes, for the first time since June 2001.

It is amazing how strong our economy is right now, and I can only hope and pray that God continues to bless us.

[moonman]

Yeah .. I remember not seeing the sun for a week or two. Twenty-some consecutive sub-freezing days... too cold to do anything outside... being a prisoner of your own home.

Now, here in beautiful sunny Florida (having a cold snap, high today only 72 hahaha) you can do anything you want during the winter months.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Bor-ing! I lived in San Diego for a few years, and that "Sunny and 72" every day got old fast. I love living a 'Four Seasons' life. I'm one of those Earth Mother types. ;)

My Dad is in Key West right now. The old f@rt ran off and got married again at age 69. Fool. ;)

[Bon mots]

My first thought as well. Bad Packers season.

What does this have to do with Brokeback Mountain?

[elcid1970]

`Bad "Packers" season!!!?'

Go back to Chicago and duh Bears! See who wins!

[Recon Dad]

I'll bet everyone of them will get to vote in 06 and 08.