Originally posted by lacsap1+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lacsap1)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-Dr. Dilznick
If this were true you would expect the suicide rate amongst children who are born via an accident to an unwed single, unprepared mother to be astronomical, and they just aren't. That's because most people, even in bad situations, recognize the value of their lives.
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Department of Health and Human Services
U.S. Public Health Service
The Surgeon General's Call To Action To Prevent Suicide.
Suicide is a serious public health problem. In 2001, the year for which the most recent statistics are available, suicide was the ninth leading cause of mortality in the United States, responsible for nearly 33,000 deaths. This number is more than 50% higher than the number of homicides in the United States in the same year (around 20,000 homicides in 1999). Many fail to realize that far more Americans die from suicide than from homicide. Each year in the United States, approximately 500,000 people require emergency room treatment as a result of attempted suicide. Suicidal behavior typically occurs in the presence of mental or substance abuse disordersillnesses that impose their own direct suffering. Suicide is an enormous trauma for millions of Americans who experience the loss of someone close to them. The nation must address suicide as a significant public health problem and put into place national strategies to prevent the loss of life and the suffering suicide causes. A recent report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) states that nearly a million people take their own lives every year, more than those murdered or killed in war. WHO figures show a suicide takes place somewhere in the world every 40 seconds. Higher levels of social and national cohesion reduce suicide rates. Suicide levels are highest among the retired, unemployed, divorced, the childless, urbanites, empty nesters, and other people who live alone. Suicide rates also rise during times of economic uncertainty (although poverty is not a direct cause). Epidemiological studies generally show a relationship between suicide or suicidal behaviors and socio-economic disadvantage, including limited educational achievement, homelessness, unemployment, economic dependence and contact with the police or justice system.
Teenage Suicides:
Suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers in the US.
Boys complete suicide five times more often than girls.
Females attempt suicide more often than males.
Teenage suicide rate has tripled over the past two decades. The rates went from 4.1 per 100,000 in the 1950's to 12.5 per 100,000 in 1980 and 14.0 per 100,000 in 2001. Sixty-five hundred American teenagers complete suicide every year.
Nine out of ten suicide attempts take place in the home just before parents come home from work. Cluster suicides have increased.
About half of the suicide victims had been in trouble with the law or at school.
Almost half of the suicide victims were known to abuse alcohol or other drugs.
High-risk groups:
Youth 15-24, particularly males.
Gay and Lesbian Youth.
Native American Youth.
Alaskan Native Youth.
Youth with access to firearms.
Youth engaging in high-risk sexual or drug related behavior.
People who suffer from mental illness, especially bipolar disorder, major depression, borderline personality disorder, and schizophrenia.
People who have previously attempted suicide.
Victims of childhood sexual abuse.
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This does not contradict anything I said.
Reading comprehension. Try it.
