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> We now lose more people to suicides in the U.S. than to car accidents. Holy shit, that's unbelievable. I basically don't drive because I have long believed t

by selmnoo 12y ago

> We now lose more people to suicides in the U.S. than to car accidents. Holy shit, that's unbelievable. I basically don't drive because I have long believed that driving is an unnecessarily risky thing to do -- indeed, because it kills so many people. To find out now that more people are lost to suicide than car accidents is pretty bizarre. I agree with rdtsc up above by the way that we should just not bring this up on social media too much. It's one place we should censor ourselves. Merely even talking about it exposes suicide as an option. Avoiding talking about it really is the way to go.

robg 12y ago
Please be careful, that's not the conclusion, this from the CDC: In addition to recognizing the types of news coverage that can promote suicide contagion, the workshop participants strongly agreed that reporting of suicide can have several direct benefits. Specifically, community efforts to address this problem can be strengthened by news coverage that describes the help and support available in a community, explains how to identify persons at high risk for suicide, or presents information about risk factors for suicide. An ongoing dialogue between news media professionals and health and other public officials is the key to facilitating the reporting of this information. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm We absolutely need to talk about this problem. No one is helped by silence.
flyinglizard 12y ago
Unless you have the enviable ability to teleport, driving is probably one of the least dangerous ways to get from place to place (compared to walking and cycling).
- solistice 12y ago
  I would imagine that teleporting is actually quite dangerous, in all it's (fictional) forms. Imagine it was magical and you just kinda popped into the spot you were thinking about. But what if there's something occupying that spot now? Would you just teleport into it? Or would it swap you and whatever was in that spot? What if there's still more of that object there? Would you suffocate in a newly built wall or get squished by moving machinery? You could always teleport only to places you can see, but I imagine that would be quite disorienting. Zap, your entire field of vision changed without you registering any movement. You'll proably get dissy and accidentally teleport somewhere dangerous. Or let's go with the Star Trek like beaming. Are there transcription errors that slowly build up? What if the exit node uses a different kind of encoding than the entry node? Teleportation seems awfully dangerous.

by selmnoo 12y ago

robg 12y ago

Please be careful, that's not the conclusion, this from the CDC: In addition to recognizing the types of news coverage that can promote suicide contagion, the workshop participants strongly agreed that reporting of suicide can have several direct benefits. Specifically, community efforts to address this problem can be strengthened by news coverage that describes the help and support available in a community, explains how to identify persons at high risk for suicide, or presents information about risk factors for suicide. An ongoing dialogue between news media professionals and health and other public officials is the key to facilitating the reporting of this information. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00031539.htm We absolutely need to talk about this problem. No one is helped by silence.

flyinglizard 12y ago

Unless you have the enviable ability to teleport, driving is probably one of the least dangerous ways to get from place to place (compared to walking and cycling).

solistice 12y ago
I would imagine that teleporting is actually quite dangerous, in all it's (fictional) forms. Imagine it was magical and you just kinda popped into the spot you were thinking about. But what if there's something occupying that spot now? Would you just teleport into it? Or would it swap you and whatever was in that spot? What if there's still more of that object there? Would you suffocate in a newly built wall or get squished by moving machinery? You could always teleport only to places you can see, but I imagine that would be quite disorienting. Zap, your entire field of vision changed without you registering any movement. You'll proably get dissy and accidentally teleport somewhere dangerous. Or let's go with the Star Trek like beaming. Are there transcription errors that slowly build up? What if the exit node uses a different kind of encoding than the entry node? Teleportation seems awfully dangerous.