[HN Gopher] More than 50,000 Americans died by suicide in 2023-m...
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       More than 50,000 Americans died by suicide in 2023-more than any
       year on record
        
       Author : grecy
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2024-03-20 22:29 UTC (31 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.nbcnews.com)
        
       | ironmagma wrote:
       | We need more parks.
        
         | rolph wrote:
         | its a larger scale than that. we need to be allowed to be human
         | again.
        
       | JohnMakin wrote:
       | 2022 was also a record year, but driven mostly by older adults
       | and suicides were down in young people. I am having a hard time
       | finding demographic data from 2023 but I wonder if it is a
       | similar trend.
        
       | jseliger wrote:
       | That is sad, and I write that as someone who has been close to
       | the edge: https://jakeseliger.com/2024/01/23/will-things-get-
       | better-su... due to medical challenges.
       | 
       | Death leaves a hole in the social world that can never be filled.
        
       | tyingq wrote:
       | 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-Pa...
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       | The combined rise is pretty notable.
        
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