Posted on 02/02/2005 5:59:35 AM PST by Theodore R.
First thought: I didn't know sheep could do that.
Suicides by state.
Where a person chooses to live many times depends on what things are the most important and desirous in that person's life. For every positive thing one person can list about living in a large urban city, another person can list something positive about living in a small rural city. Not all Americans are seeking the hip nightclubs, museums, live theater, art galleries, fancy restaurants, and fashionable clothing stores that a large city usually provides.
To quote the famed American poet --
Sometimes I livein the country,
Sometimes I live in the town,
Sometimes I take a great notion,
To jump in the river and drown...
Kesey.
Goodnight Irene
(Huddie Ledbetter - known as Leadbelly)
I asked your mother for you
She told me that you was too young
I wish to the Lord I’d never seen your face
or heard your lying tongue
Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
Sometimes I live in the country
Sometimes I live in the town
Sometimes I have a great notion
to jump into the river and drown
Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
Stop ramblin’, stop your gamblin’
stop stayin’ out late at night
Go home to your wife and your family
sit down by the fireside bright
Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
I love Irene God knows I do
love her till the sea run dry
And if Irene turns her back on me
I’m gonna take morphine and die
Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight
Goodnight Irene, Goodnight Irene
I’ll see you in my dreams
Sure - when a blue state resident feels like arranging a death, he makes sure it's somebody else's. ;)
The interesting thing about both extremes -- large city and rural area -- is that to survive either one, you have to have a very firm sense of yourself and some skills...
And I complain that Seattle (600,000) is small and boring. I'm from NYC (8.2 MILLION in the city alone).
Is there some correlation between high "suicide" rates and gun ownership? If you commit suicide with a gun, it's pretty evident you killed yourself. If you live in a place where legal ownership of a gun is problematic, might you not choose a method like pills, that could be explained away?
Worst performance of this song...ever.
http://www.archive.org/download/gd83-12-31.sbd.miller.13963.sbeok.shnf/gd83-12-31d3t08_64kb.mp3
You are probably right. ....thats why I like mid-sized cities. LOL.
If you read my subsequent posts, I think it goes deeper than that. It's a whole lot more than nightclubs and restaurants, and malls. It's the very way of life. I addressed the lack of diversity in another post, so I won't go on about relationship here. Although a social life is important, and unlike the city, if you don't fit in, in a small town, you don't fit in. You always fit in somewhere in the city.
One of things that I truly hated about living in the boonies was that the things that most Americans take for granted was an event. That's the real drudger of living in the boonies.
My son went through a bit of stomach problems that mandated he be seen by a gastro doc. Here in DFW, he's also seen one. The difference is that now it's hour and sometimes two out of the day. Life goes on. In the boonies, it was an event. Life stopped. The same hour to two hours applied, but it was also a 240 mile round trip, that took all day. Both kids needed to be taken out of school, my wife needed the day off, we had to eat two meals out, etc etc.
Too complicate it even further, the lack of facilities meant that the family practice docs that were nearby (25 miles or so) were quicker to refer care to a specialist than they seem to be here in the city. What's taken care of here with a consult between the family practice doc and the the specialist, there mandated the life stopping all day trip.
Oh, and the golden hour of medicine? Forget it. Whether it's a automoble accident or a heart attack, you're just more likely to die in the boonies.
It's my understanding that people usually leave notes when they decide to off themselves...two of my favorite are:
The guy who blew his head off with a shotgun and left a note in his jacket pocket that read, "Messy, isn't it?"
And the other one that read: "I can't take it any more and I don't even know what it is..."
Most likely.
Norway has the highest life expectancy and also highest suicide rate in Europe. People there believe that lack of sunlight in the long dark winters push people over the edge.
10 of the Bottom 10 Suicide States are BLUE STATES
Maybe those in the blue states are all on drugs, don't work, and have very little stress to deal with other than what Harry should wear on his date with Henry? I don't know the answer, thanks, I did not notice that, just that my state was 31 or 34, can't remember. Why do you think that the red states have more?
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