[pfflier]

Yours is a voice of reason on this thread. I suspect part of the suicide trend is cultural and not unique to the military. As a society, suicide is portrayed as an acceptable proposition especially for younger people.

I would like to see a study that compares curves between the rate of increase in military suicides as compared to the non-military population. Also, it would be interesting to show suicide rates compared by age groups especially 20 YOs vs say 40 YOs.

[pepsionice]

I think if you isolated the test group of ‘civilians’ to football players (frontline guys) with the military crowd, you might find a direct connection with concussions and suicides. But if you lay the statistical mat down against a normal and regular crowd....I would agree...it probably won’t match up.