Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says
Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says
The suicide rate in the United States spiked in 2021, reversing two years of decline, and rates among older men were especially high, a new report says.
Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report
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None think about having to clean up all their blood and brain matter left over. Suicide is so selfish.
Ironically your comment is incredibly selfish (you need to walk in their shoes) and based on nothing but your imagination. Some may take precautions to minimize cleanup.
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thank you. its nice to hear or in this case read someone put it out so sanely and clearly. I do not get why other people feel they should tell someone else that they have to continue to exist because they know better than them.
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It’s also selfish to force people to suffer due to our personal moral scruples. Allow assisted suicide.
For terminal illness perhaps, but not mental health disorders. Those are curable.
Not so easily as you say.
Alzheimer's and schizophrenia are curable, are they?
Schizophrenia can be treated, yes. Alzheimer's, if caught early, can be cured.
The key is seeking treatment and following through.
Alzheimer's, if caught early, can be cured.
-YoBuckStopsHere
Yes, when caught early. Research is ongoing to help all patients regain their memories.
"Current Alzheimer's treatments temporarily improve symptoms of memory loss and problems with thinking and reasoning.
These Alzheimer's treatments boost the performance of chemicals in the brain that carry information from one brain cell to another. They include cholinesterase inhibitors and the medicine memantine (Namenda). However, these treatments don't stop the underlying decline and death of brain cells. As more cells die, Alzheimer's disease continues to progress."
-literally your own source
Yes, for those not caught early. I'm glad you agree.
While I agree with this statement
i dont agree on everything you''ve said. That mentally ill people should almost certainly not be given MAID and this MAID stuff is getting out of handfor christ sakes there handing out MAID to homeless people and people with very much cureable with treatment mental illnesses absoluteI'm not going lie to you dementia and AD can not be cured and are categorised as diseases.
in my opinionin a situation where someone with dementia,terminal cancer or any other terminal disease which causes great harm and distress wants medically assisted suicide then I think this is fine. MAID should only apply to terminal illnesses or serve physical disabilities such as being both blind and having mutupile amputations stuff that causes great pain and great distess and the person receiving MAID should be have to fully consenting and willing to the idea of MAID.People with Mental disabilities and mental illnesses should never receive MAID They arent in great pain or distress instead they should receive proper treatment and care that they need and help with integration into society finding a job,assistance with care,housing etc
Calling people who suffer from suicidal ideation or committed suicide selfish is exactly like calling kids with down syndrome idiots.
No, it's calling it as it is, selfish. Someone who takes their own life only cares about themselves. They don't care about the impact it has on anyone else. That is pure selfishness. Get help, your mental health issues are curable.
Yikes.
I try not judge these folks too harshly, they must be in incredible pain.
No, they just need medical help. Depression is a disease that is curable.
And that's the whole problem. Medical help is so expensive you need medical help after medical help.
Excuses for not seeking help. Every state has low cost mental health options available to the public.
Lmfao good one.
No, they're not in pain? Really?
That's why you seek help.
Someone who doesn't want help is not going to seek help. Your "solution" is as insane as telling a schizophrenic person to just stop listening to voices. Your understanding of mental illness is both offensive to those of us who suffer from it and just simply ignorant. Until you get a degree in psychology, maybe you shouldn't be lecturing other people about what they should do about their mental illnesses.
Yes, they do want help. They always want help. The problem is their perspective is clouded. You treat someone who is looking to self harm the same way you treat a drowning person, you pull them out as they cry for help. Most people do seek help, it's usually those who are encouraged toword self harm, as many on LW are promoting, that attempt suicide.
Yes, they do want help. They always want help.
Is this in your expert psychological opinion?
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That kind of gun-assisted suicide at least, for sure. There's still deaths of despair that are far from selfish acts, and moreso acts of desperation.
The only suicide that is acceptable to me is when a person is terminally ill or disabled and suffering. Depression is no excuse for suicide, ever. Depression is a curable disease and typically can vastly improve by an environment change.
It's rare to find a lack of empathy, intelligence together with ignorance in one single comment. Well done.
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Well done again. Your ability to come across as even more callous and ignorant than you already had is truly impressive.
I'm not they one celebrating suicide. I'm the one telling people to seek help. Stop championing people taking their lives. Suicide is never the answer.
And now you've added twisting peoples words to make yourself look better.
Have you considered a career as a landlord? Or a conservative politician? You're a natural fit.
Of course they refused to get help. THEY WERE SUICIDAL. Do you even understand the concept of that? If you want to die, you don't want help. I know because I've been there.
We have already established the selfishness of suicide.
Your solution to suicidal people is that they should get help. I'm explaining to you why they don't. You're telling them to do something they can't do. They are not mentally able to ask for help.
And some of us, like me, are just in excruciating pain every single day.
You are making excuses and it's established the suicide is a selfish act. They don't seek help because they don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't care how it effects their parents, friends, coworkers, or anyone. They only care about themselves.
90% of people cannot afford and environment change, not that such cures depression. Some people are less treatable, and many depression medications actually heighten suicidal feelings.
Those are excuses not solutions.
That’s what you offer. You don’t just magically cure mental illness. Nor do you just magically have money to change your situation.
Helluva lot easier to say when you're not actively in the depths of it
To be fair you're making an assumption here that may or may not be true
No one said it was easy, but it's still a selfish act. I've had military friends take their lives over nothing. One didn't promote as fast as they wanted to and said they were feeling like a failure. Well they left their wife and two traumatized children behind as a result. Suicide is selfish, get help because it's curable.
depression cured by drugs is not a cure and ironically often lead to more suicide since it lightens the depression enough to get the person to take action.
Depression can be cured through various means, sometimes it might be a chemical imbalance, sometimes it's environmental, sometimes a person might have the wrong perspective. Talking honestly is always the first step. A gun isn't.
So do something about it.
Wall Street is selfish. Taking more profit than you need is selfish.
These people were desperate. Many likely due to rampant American capitalistic selfishness forcing them to subsist on catfood so business crooks can have 2 vacation homes and 5 expensive cars instead of everyone benefitting from market prosperity.
Selfishness is America's brand, but being driven to put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger isn't selfishness, it is largely a consequence of other's selfishness. Our suicide rates are extreme in the supposedly "developed" world because selfish people demand everything and we let them do it at societal expense.
I have thought about that. I have a really big back yard. I'd do it back there where my blood stained bone fragments will soak into the ground and feed some worms. No mess. No fuss. House holds its value for immediate liquidation with proceeds going to my daughter.
Keep your self(ish) righteous bullshit to yourself.