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It's fairly alarming if you also look at deaths from drugs and alcohol. A lot of those deaths are reckless behavior in the face of profound depression. Which
by tyingq 3y ago
It's fairly alarming if you also look at deaths from drugs and alcohol. A lot of those deaths are reckless behavior in the face of profound depression. Which isn't suicide, but surely related.
See the chart on page 4 in this doc: https://www.tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/TFAH-2023-PainInTheNation-FINALr.pdf https://www.tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/TFAH-2023-Pa...
The combined rise is pretty notable.
- Quiza12 3y ago"Suicide's for cowards he said While sat drinking himself to death" - Mercedes Marxist by Idles
- Rinzler89 3y ago> A lot of those deaths are reckless behavior in the face of profound depression. Which isn't suicide, but surely related. If you crawl into a bottle and kill yourself with alcohol, but very slowly, over the course of months/years, is that also not suicide?
- aidenn0 3y ago1. Obviously the CDC won't count those as suicide 2. In general, making a distinction between intentional self-harm and self-harm due to recklessness can be useful in some instances.
- _nalply 3y ago2. How would you? Where's the point where the one becomes the other? (rhetoric question)
- mattmaroon 3y agoAccording to the CDC, no. But obviously they are closely related.
- inerte 3y agoI don’t think suicide statistics include cases like this.
- adamredwoods 3y agoYou cannot define intention like that, because then it could be applied to almost anything, for example, extreme overeating.
- darkclouds 3y ago[dead]