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My sound strange, but I’m encouraged by these numbers. Personally, I think it’s super unfortunate people choose to commit suicide, but it’s a choice. Everythi
by lettergram 6y ago
My sound strange, but I’m encouraged by these numbers.
Personally, I think it’s super unfortunate people choose to commit suicide, but it’s a choice.
Everything else (besides addictions) on the mortality chart for the US is not a choice... think about that for a moment, we have reduced all the other risks of death so much that suicides are a meaningful number. In fact, suicides are now above homicides, which are also dropping.
- bluntfang 6y agoI'm not sure if all survivors would identify with suicide being a choice. I'm willing to be corrected, but I feel like a lot of people who attempt suicide feel like they have expended all of their choices. I'm also not sure if addiction is a choice either, maybe you could expand on your thoughts?
- vmchale 6y agoIt's kind of like saying "at least people aren't dying in childbirth" lol. Still bad!