Suicides outnumber homicides in the U.S.?

Question

I just read a disturbing article that states that suicides outnumber homicides in the U.S., according to Charles Curie, head of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin. They average 80 per day.

The really sad news is that 90% of people that kill themselves suffer from diagonosable and PREVENTABLE problems such as depression.

What do you think of these findings and how do you think we all can better help those we know to deal with life better?

BradleyP-Don't know who "YOUR" is in YOUR rant, I certainly don't go along with anything from Falwell or Robinson. I didn't elect Bush and would never vote Republican. So, guess you're really off the mark again guy. And your 10 cents...ain't worth a plug penny to me.

Answer 1

Cheaper or free medical insurance to everyone. I think a lot of times people do not get help because they can not afford it.

Answer 2

Well, gee, do you think our Media might have something to do with it? You know, the way YOUR society lets the Jerry Falwells blame *citizens* for 9-1-1 on the day of? The way YOUR society lets Pat Robertson blather on about how "60% of America has to DIE before things are right again..."?

Or could it be that people have lost all hope for the future, after YOUR society let New Orleans decay into barbarity and death in the wake of Hurricane Katrina? Still? Or that people can't find decent work without YOUR FatCat CEO Class selling us out to the Third World at every opportunity with outsourcing and NO retstraints on Illegal (as in AGAINST THE LAW) Immigration?

Or maybe it is just that YOUR society of the pampered rich has been attacking, slandering, defaming and libeling the poorer HALF of the nation in the Media, at work, and nearly everywhere else, for the past 26 YEARS and counting, since Reagan spouted "Greed is Good" and then decimated Job Growth in the nation courtesy of Graham-Rudman??

Or could it be that YOUR society of HMOs and PPOs, these pampered bureaucratic *bean counters* are refusing to solve problems and *want to* exploit people with legitimate mood disorders (NOT character flaws damn it! WHEN WILL YOU RICH PEOPLE GET IT??) indefinitely by creating a *permanent underclass* that is drugged into submission with nine kinds of toxic pills, browbeaten into submission by simplistic Workbooks instead of legitimate counseling, and then ABUSED into submission by the Cult of the RubberBand Around the Wrist (a *shackle* is a damn shackle, even if it is the Cognitive "Behavioral" tool of choice)?

Really.....the question is NOT why folks are giving up on the future, have lost all hope and are ending their lives...

The question is, why does YOUR barbaric society of the creeping redneckism and the corporatist plantationism still LIE to us and PRETEND that it cares? We know you don't, ok? We get it.

We get it that "Greed is GOD" to you people, and that you won't be happy until the whole country is a New Orleans style apocalyptic ruin and until *everyone* who disagrees with you is DEAD the way the Media want them to be.

Really....YOUR society elected Pinky and the Damned Brain to the highest office in the land, *twice*, and YOUR society let a whole entire city *slip* through the cracks, because YOUR society has been brainwashed into being too terrified to care.

Learned Helplessness. Stockholm Syndrome. Passively enforced Social Darwinism. Whatever you want to call it, it is ruining our nation and by extension Western Civilization...

And nobody cares.

Just my ten cents, my two cents is free.

Answer 3

Would not be surprised... yeah the USA is #1 when it comes to making money and we tell the whole world about it, but at the cost of having our lives be run by the chase of the mighty dollar and efficiency... which means the stress for all of us is near unbearable, and many can't take it.

Bottom line: We might be rich, but we are no better for it.

Answer 4

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