Posted on 08/11/2023 7:18:07 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
About 49,500 people took their own lives last year in the U.S., the highest number ever, according to new government data posted Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which posted the numbers, has not yet calculated a suicide rate for the year, but available data suggests suicides are more common in the U.S. than at any time since the dawn of World War II.
“There’s something wrong. The number should not be going up,” said Christina Wilbur, a 45-year-old Florida woman whose son shot himself to death last year.
“My son should not have died,” she said. “I know it’s complicated, I really do. But we have to be able to do something. Something that we’re not doing. Because whatever we’re doing right now is not helping.”
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It’s tragic if anyone commits suicide.
I’m open to learning, what are “we” supposed to do? Create more government programs for mental health screenings? Require doctors to do some sort of mental health screenings at routine doctor’s appointments for other issues?
I’ve heard there are suicide hotlines people can call, and hopefully they get help from calling such services. Are those services effective; do we know?
Mike Pence says that’s not his concern
More tanks to war
A lot of relapse deaths as well.
I read over and over that a huge portion of "gun violence victims" are really suicides.
well, at least bidenomics is workin/s
Does this include “Physician Assisted Suicide”, which is too ofter manipulated by greedy Insurance companies, Hospital Administrators, and family members.
Start with the person in the mirror.
Sadly this is what I predicted, although it has very little to do with the availability of guns. It’s the dreadful rise of mental illness.
Need more red flag laws. That’ll get lots of people to seek mental health help.
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It’s because of climate change. Or maybe Putin.
Or wood stoves.
She could start by being a parent. Teaching responsibility, obligations, duties, suborning wants and feelings etc. Otherwise it’ll be “I want drugs” and if I can’t get them I’ll....
Libs are so WEAK thank God!
Higher rates than even the Clinton Years in Arkansas and DC?
Lack of real parenting. And that means not being ‘friends’ with your children.
It is quite possible that the encouragement in schools of gender fluidity and homosexuality is the motive.
Homosexuals and transexuals are 3 to 6 times more likely to commit suicide than heterosexuals. That's massive.
What we're not doing is giving each generation of Americans a Solid Foundation upon which to build a life. Degenerates in America expelled Christ from America and the vacuum brought in every evil under the sun.
Dope addicts. Sexual deviants and perverts. Nihilistic violence in entertainment. The whole cult of the Climate Change fraud.
Every degenerate American who facilitated the above is going to answer. Some Day. But for right now, our young people are paying the price for the sins of their parents.
I didn’t realize that many people crossed Hillary Clinton.
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