Plantagenet wrote:onlooker wrote:The Great Recession Caused A Sharp Rise In Suicides
I'm sure the Great Recession didn't help, but the beginning of the rise in suicides in the US pre-dates the Great Recession by 13 years, and the suicide rate has continued to increase every year for the last 8 years since the Great Recession. The rise in death rate has now been going on for over 20 years---its related to some bigger secular economic trend -----its not just due to the recession
Good post Plant. But OTOH, eyeballing the chart for the 45-54 age group for white males, that has suicide at about a sixteenth of the total deaths. Not great perhaps, but not the end of the world.
Looking at the overall causes would seem to be a lot more productive than people focusing on just the suicides -- but suicides have a moral overtone even in a society with a decreasing participation rate in organized religion over time.