Posted on 09/23/2012 6:06:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Suicide is the cause of more deaths than car crashes, according to an alarming new study.
The number of people who commit suicide in the U.S. has drastically increased while deaths from car accidents have dropped, making suicide the leading cause of injury death.
Suicides via falls or poisoning have risen significantly and experts fear that there could be many more unaccounted for, particularly in cases of overdose.
Suicides are terribly under-counted,' said Ian Rockett, author of the study, published on Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.
'I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe. We have a situation that has gotten out of hand.'
He added that his goal is to see the same attention paid to other injuries as has been paid to reducing the number of deaths in traffic accidents.
The results were compiled using National Center for Health Statistics data gathered from 2000 to 2009.
Researchers noted a 25 per cent decrease in fatal car accidents, medicalxpress.com reported, while deaths from falls rose 71 per cent, poisoning 128 per cent and from suicide 15 per cent.
Higher automobile standards were credited for the decrease in deaths on the road, with harsher penalties for underage drinking and failing to wear seat belts named as contributing factors.
Previous research has suggested that suicide rates go up during recessions and times of economic crisis.
'Economic problems can impact how people feel about themselves and their futures as well as their relationships with family and friends,' Feijun Luo of CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention told Bloomberg.
'Prevention strategies can focus on individuals, families, neighborhoods or entire communities to reduce risk factors.'
Suicide is now the most frequent cause of injury deaths, followed by car crashes, poisoning, falls and murder.
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Or that extra can of beanee-weenies in the cupboard.
Note to self: Buy more beanee-weenies.
I believe this suicide rate has more to do with the misuse (ie. over prescription) of antidepressants than people’s despair over their unemployment.
See Peter Breggin, M.D.
http://www.breggin.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=286
Rockett science!
The 5 Pees
proper planning prevents poor performance
I thought that was piss-poor prior planning prevents perfect performance...
sailing on the 7 pees is suicide
You seem to have omitted the 6th Pee.....
Say hello to Valerie, say hello to Marion, Send them all my salary, on the waters of oblivion
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY YEARS OF COUNSELING IT TOOK TO GET ME THIS FAR?????
Dude! Give pees a chance!
Actually of the three links you provided, the Admin Moderator pulled the other two out as dupes. He seems to have favored the one I posted. I am most blessed :)
So far...
man who lay woman on ground gets pees on earth
(Say hello to Valerie, say hello to Marion, and THANK THEM)
“The suicide rate is as much about the cultural erosion of faith”
“Hope can only exist if one has faith.”
The two most profound truths I have read here today on the Sabbath. Personally I cannot imagine someone of faith ending their earthly existence before G-d so ordains.
Mhy wife & I are retired military & we recall the heartbreak of those mandatory “suicide prevention” classes we had to attend early in 2009 after it was announced that more soldiers committed suicide than were killed by the enemy in 2008. The eerie detail was that suicides didn’t take place in the middle of combat, but after the soldier had redeployed back to the U.S. Who says the human mind isn’t being attacked by demons?
I thank the Lord that I believe in Him!
Suicide rates dropped in Berlin and London during the bombings.
No point in killing yourself today when the enemy might do it for free tomorrow.
Meanwhile, they want you to think Romney murdered some guy’s wife...
Or......when you know somebody’s coming to kill you and you didn’t do anything wrong and you don’t want to run away, the instinct to survive quickly overcomes the despair associated with suicide.
Jeff Cooper wrote in 1957 that survival means “forget that pistol and grab a shotgun!”
“I consider someone driving a smart car as displaying their suicidal tendencies...”
Especially when I’m next to them in my HUMMER. I like to keep it real!
I may have given one or two SMART cars or Prius hybrids a ‘Reality Check’ in the past few years...
Just a brief moment of, WAKE UP!!!
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