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Why Are So Many Young Americans Killing Themselves?
The American Spectator ^ | October 17, 2025, 10:05 PM | John Mac Ghlionn

Posted on 10/18/2025 2:01:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The spiritual roots of America’s suicide crisis.

Across the United States, suicide among young adults has soared over the past decade. In places like Georgia, North Carolina, and Texas, the rise has been staggering. The maps show the trend. But they don’t capture the quiet despair behind it — the loneliness, the loss of hope, the loss of meaning. This isn’t just a crisis of screens or social media, but a crisis of the soul.

We live in an age of abundance, yet despair continues to spread like a dark cloud. Gen Z has inherited everything — information, access, entertainment — and still feels empty. They scroll, they compare, they perform. They broadcast their lives for strangers but rarely live them. It’s connection without communion, messaging without meaning, motion without purpose. What’s missing isn’t dopamine but direction. (RELATED: Is Suicide Selfish?)

Faith once gave that direction. It didn’t promise ease, only endurance. It gave people something firm to stand on when everything else fell apart. But belief today has been traded for irony. God is a punchline, the church a museum, and the language of the soul has been replaced by the language of self-help. In that silence, something essential has gone missing — the quiet conviction that life, however hard, still matters. (RELATED: The Church of Climate Panic)

A culture that prizes comfort over character can’t sustain the weight of pain. When the soul starves, the mind soon follows.

The modern creed tells young people they can be anything. It rarely tells them why they should be anything. They’re told to “find their truth,” though truth itself has become a moving target. They’re told to “love themselves,” though few are shown what love actually requires. So they chase pleasure, mistaking it for...


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1 posted on 10/18/2025 2:01:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No God in their lives, no Christian friends and no hope.


2 posted on 10/18/2025 2:03:25 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Well most young men would kill themselves is someone cut off their pee-pee and made them grow breasts.

3 posted on 10/18/2025 2:04:25 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s the sorrows. Brought to you by follows. Or lack thereof.


4 posted on 10/18/2025 2:05:06 PM PDT by Kudsman (48)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They need Jesus Christ to be the center of their lives.

[I]n [His] presence is fulness of joy.
Psalms 16:11
5 posted on 10/18/2025 2:07:44 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The satanic elements of this nation have removed God and his precepts destroying a very much needed belief system.


6 posted on 10/18/2025 2:10:14 PM PDT by Ronald77 ( )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Chasing Pleasures...
Even That is a Bottomless Pit.


7 posted on 10/18/2025 2:11:34 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Yes.

The government with a suicide prevention program and some licensed counselor can’t fill the void created with the loss of religion.

Religion like family still has a vital role in a healthy society.


8 posted on 10/18/2025 2:22:48 PM PDT by Red6
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To: Ronald77

Look at the days following a student suicide. Girls are weeping, grief counselors will be brought in, memorials built positioned again a fence are set up, and money raised for burials. A you person threatening suicide will have an outpouring of love. It is all very sad. Young people sometimes feel unloved. A local boy drove his car to the front of the school, rolled up the windows and locked the doors. While students were banging on the car to stop, he put a shotgun to his mouth and pulled the trigger. I would bet those who saw this will forever be haunted by it.


9 posted on 10/18/2025 2:22:50 PM PDT by healy61
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The American Spectator’s Tyrell explained all this many years ago, and succinctly, it was evident decades ago: kultur smog.
Who is responsible? Those responsible decide our “entertainment”: our music, movies, news, TV—all media. They tell us what to shun and what to worship, dictate what is good and bad in politics as well as consumer choices, as if we are cattle.
It is no wonder that young people stun themselves.


10 posted on 10/18/2025 2:25:20 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

John D. MacDonald wrote a science fiction story titled Common Denominator in 1951 that had an interesting view of this.


11 posted on 10/18/2025 2:34:29 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

As I tell my students, “You’re either a participant in a cosmic adventure, or a rat in a Skinner Box. Choose wisely!”


12 posted on 10/18/2025 2:37:13 PM PDT by TomEd (Her şey hazır! Buyrun, şölene!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They do it overdosing or high on drugs.


13 posted on 10/18/2025 2:42:04 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Some only want to be dead for a little while.


14 posted on 10/18/2025 2:43:36 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Government sponsored confusion of self? That would be my bet. Toss on $200K in student loan debt that bought a useless education focused mostly on spring breaks and gender affirmation rallies, and yeah......it’s pretty bleak.


15 posted on 10/18/2025 2:45:10 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: tumblindice
<>i>They tell us

But nobody forces "us" to listen.

Turn them off. Excommunicate them from your life.

Quit being "entertained" and you'll be surprised how much time you have been wasting. Use that time to "do" rather than "watch".

16 posted on 10/18/2025 2:47:41 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Weed.

People on weed go mentally ill and kill themselves more.

They think it helps, but end up insane and dying. THC is the most evil and destructive drug like Laura said.


17 posted on 10/18/2025 2:48:39 PM PDT by Polanski
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because ChatGPT told them to?


18 posted on 10/18/2025 2:53:08 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No God, parents divorced, woke school system. Trifecta.


19 posted on 10/18/2025 2:54:59 PM PDT by lurk (u)
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A very devout Christian, young man, in our very small town Wyoming, just took his life. My friend’s son. He was a very giving young man. Excelled in everything he did, a sophomore in high school.

He was being groomed online by someone. He thought he was messaging a girl. He eventually sent some pictures. Not nudes, but they used his pictures and AI to create nudes. Told him they would blackmail him if he didn’t send money.

He felt trapped and in despair. Completely humiliated. Like there was no way out. So he ended his life.


20 posted on 10/18/2025 2:55:33 PM PDT by wyokostur
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