Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 07/07/2010 6:41:24 PM PDT by nmh
LOS ANGELES (July 6) -- ...
While government statistics on suicides often lag by two or three years, experts say the easier-to-track calls to hot lines have grown significantly.
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There are indicators the U.S. suicide rate has climbed. An informal tally of 19 states by the Wall Street Journal in November found an increase of 2.3 percent in the 2008 suicide rate over the 2007 rate. Other news outlets around the nation have recently reported a troubling flow of suicides and murder-suicides by people facing crippling financial troubles, including:
An armed man facing foreclosure in Chattanooga, Tenn., who called police early July 1 threatening suicide. Authorities said that after officers arrived, the man talked with them from the porch of his house and then burst down the steps waving his gun while screaming, "Suicide by cop!" He died in a hail of bullets.
A husband in Santa Ana, Calif., who called police later that same day to say he had shot his wife while she slept and then overdosed on Valium in a murder-suicide pact the morning they were to be evicted from their apartment. He survived and has been charged with murder.
A husband and father in Anaheim, Calif., facing foreclosure and a mountain of credit card debt, last month shot and killed his wife, critically wounded their 3-year-old son, shot at but missed their 5-year-old son and then killed himself, police said.
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Several studies have found links between long periods of unemployment and increased risks of death by suicide, Coontz said. During the Great Depression, which began with the stock market crash in October 1929, suicides peaked in 1933, increasing from 14 per 100,000 to 17 per 100,000 at a time when unemployment reached 25 percent.
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CEO Dr. Kita S. Curry of national Lifeline system states:
"But we've been tracking the calls, and there has been an increase in the number of callers who mention economic worries as part of what's troubling them," said Curry, a psychologist. Those who see no hope of positive change are at the most risk for suicide, she said.
"Right now, with the economy, people do feel hopeless and helpless; it isn't something that they can control," she said. And the worries often extend to children, she said, citing a study in which kids ages 8 to 12 and 13 to 18 reported they were feeling more stress than the previous year.
November can’t come too soon. I don’t remember a time when the country was in the hands of such incompetent half-wits... Dodd, Obama, Biden, Reid, Waxman, Frank etc. etc. The list is seemingly endless. They all claim to be working for the average worker, but the average worker is unemployed and out of options.
In fact, the underpinnings of the recession, which includes the continuing collapse of the manufacturing sector and the wage structures that helped build the nation's middle class, have added a sense of class failure.
“Some of these jobs are gone forever,” Coontz said. “We've already been experiencing a transition away from a manufacturing economy and this hollowing-out of secure middle-wage jobs. That is something that is very foreign to the American, the notion that they're not going to do as well as their parents, and their kids are not going to do as well as them.”
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, which is open 24 hours, can be reached at 800-273-TALK (8255).
Relief is on the way!
Obama’s latest sneaky pick, will help you commit suicide. Life has no value or meaning to Obama and his new appointee to Medicare and Medicaid. He LOVES the British system of hellcare.
This should give those liberal ‘RAT maggots who ridiculed and made fun of the former FNC producer who committed suicide something that they can really laugh and joke about. Remember. Liberals and DemocRATS are maggots. Never forget it.
Yes we did!
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Gee whiz, a couple years ago I wanted a bigger house like everyone else.
But I stayed in my little one. And am grateful now.
Same here. Just re-financed too, so my PITI are like a car payment.
Zero is going to be looking to people like you and me, with savings, equity, etc., to provide the pie.
What say you? I say, “Don’t tread on me, pencil-neck.” (Not you, him.)
All the people that will die of the heat for lack of funds for air conditioning will join the ranks of The Obama Dead.
After all, he promised that energy bills would necessarily skyrocket.
Agenda 21, anyone?
Obama lied, people died.
I know a family of Obama voters where the husband just lost his union job of 30 years when the company moved from unionized PA to non-union WV. The guy is in shock about it. The Obama economy is not even helping union workers. This person now has plenty of time to hang around the gun club where coincidentally most of his buddies voted Dem.
Unions have moved from supporting white only, to blacks and now ILLEGALS. Unions want the cheap labor signed up with them. I’d bet you and ILLEGAL took his job. Tell him that!
Unions have moved from supporting white only, to blacks and now ILLEGALS. Unions want the cheap labor signed up with them. I’d bet you and ILLEGAL took his job. Tell him that!
Unions have moved from supporting white only, to blacks and now ILLEGALS. Unions want the cheap labor signed up with them. I’d bet you and ILLEGAL took his job. Tell him that!
Same here!
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