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US suicide deaths reached record high in 2022
- hqsolomo 3y agoThis stings because I lost a few close friends to suicide and gun violence last year. It's really sad that we can't/won't do anything to stymie the trend
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- WentFullRetard 3y ago[dead]
- alex_lav 3y agoThe pandemic was definitely the lowest I have ever been in my life. I can totally understand how others didn't make it. Insanely sad.
- autotune 3y ago"Please explain why your resume has so many short stints over the last 2-3 years" - continues to be an often asked question in interviews.
- brewdad 3y ago“Did you live through 2020, 2021, and 2022? It was kind of a mess.” Would be my response. I wouldn’t want to work for someone that asks that kind of question anyway.
- predictabl3 3y agoI can't get over the way interviewees are treated. I have had several run-ins with existential dread and realized that the first X years of sacrificing my life to FAANG company gave me enough money to retire for close to a decade (well, based on my burn rate and what the stock is doing, it's unbounded at this point). It's going to really be something when I start interviewing and openly scoff at these types of questions. My GitHub speaks for itself, I don't really plan on justifying my time away from formal employment other than "sorry, I wanted to enjoy life while my body and mind were working at near peak rather than waiting another 30 years to avoid making others around me uncomfortable". Because god knows people get weird about hearing how long I've been happily unemployed. I've said it here before and it's wiiiiildly unpopular but a decade of tech salary goes *a very, very long way* if you're not on the consumer-capitalist treadmill.
- lockhouse 3y agoFor me the post pandemic inflation has taken a much bigger toll. All the essentials cost too much and there’s not enough left to spoil my family or myself with. Makes working my crappy pointless job even more depressing.
- jgtrosh 3y agoOne of the first chatbots, ELIZA[0] from 1966, attempted to offer psychotherapeutic assistance to users. I feel like since this was one of the first applications of chatbots, it would have been strongly iterated upon. But I'm not sure there's a lot of development in the field, apart from virtual companions (like Replika[1]). So two things on my mind: - has there been research on whether such tools could actually be significantly helpful to people facing depression, as individuals and over whole populations? - are existing virtual companions already being prescribed by health professionals? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replika
- iancmceachern 3y agoTo me this is the ultimate dystopia. That movie Her seems to explore this topic, I don't know, I isn't see it, even the movie seemed too sad to me.
- nine_zeros 3y agoBut this is the future. Most people are too lonely. People are forced to value jobs and careers more than relationships. 4 years ago, no one would have predicted the success of only fans, a porn influencing site. But here we are, people are working too hard at work to make money and then throwing it away at rent and to pay for imaginary sex. Next step, get them to pay for the emotional relationship. I don't like the future.
- iancmceachern 3y agoI choose to put my effort towards improving those values, rather than new ways to cope with worse ones.
- rcme 3y ago> People are forced to value jobs and careers more than relationships. This feels like an 80s trope. People are lonely because the discomfort of social situations drives them to hide in their smartphones rather than take the time to get to know people. It's a sad prison.
- hindsightbias 3y agoI’m presuming this doesn’t count any “accidental” ODs, which no doubt are a thing but not a 100% thing.
- WiSaGaN 3y agoYou can reference "disease of despair" in this case, which includes "drug overdose (including alcohol overdose), suicide, and alcoholic liver disease". "For 2018, some 158,000 U.S. citizens died from these causes, compared to 65,000 in 1995." [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease_of_despair
- droopyEyelids 3y agoThis is an interesting point because, from the people I've met, I'm not sure there are non-depressed opiate addicts? Like depression seems almost to be a prerequisite for opiate addiction. Also seems strongly correlated with alcoholism
- vintermann 3y agoI guess they don't call them depressants for nothing.
- LatteLazy 3y agoI remember reading about the oddly high number of men who die in "accidents" where they drive at very high speed into large stationary objects without breaking or swerving. The theory being those are just suicides without notes that get miscatagorised as single vehicle fatal accidents.
- unmole 3y ago> Suicide deaths rose from 48,183 in 2021 to an estimated 49,449 deaths in 2022, CDC said.
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- layer8 3y agoMore data here: https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html
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- curation 3y agoOur social order rewards being a martyr for capitalism. We supplement the banality of capitalist enjoyments with the surplus enjoyment of observing others lives in hell - in wars, in starvation and killing themselves. We should not look so close at what in particular is causing each individual or each group of individuals to do this or that horror but stand back and see that we are universally united in this struggle to be.
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- Mattasher 3y agoTaking this comment at face value. Whether or not we should just let people do what they want, we most certainly do not. Our laws and our culture have a lot of rules about personal behavior, and these impact the suicide rate. Changes to these rules impacts people's health and flourishing, which impacts the suicide rate. Whether or not it's "acceptable" for an individual to take their own life, a large increase in the rate of people doing so is NOT a good sign for the society you live in. We absolutely should be asking questions about why that's happening.
- magospietato 3y agoSimply put, there's no coming back from a successful suicide, and generally people who attempt suicide are not in a normal/healthy state of mind. There are many liberal societies that allow euthanasia though - even for mental health conditions - it's just there tends to be a process of checks and balances to go through to ensure the patient's decision is made of sound mind and without coercion.