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_POSTED_BY bjorn

Tuesday, 21 October 2008

this land is our land by autotelic

A report in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine shows that US suicide rates appear to be on the rise, driven mostly by middle-aged white women and maybe the relentless fucking pressure of trying to live up to the superhuman all singing and dancing hockey mom thing. .

The overall suicide rate between 1999 and 2005 rose 0.7 percent , with the rate for white men aged 40 to 64 up 2.7 percent and for middle-aged women 3.9 percent.

"The biggest increase that we have seen between 1999 and 2005 was the increase in poisoning suicide in women -- that went up by 57 percent," said Susan Baker, a professor in injury prevention with a special expertise in suicide.

"The results underscore a change in the epidemiology of suicide, with middle-aged whites emerging as a new high-risk group," Baker said in a statement.

"Definitely these are not just little blips," she said in a telephone interview. "We are looking at a big population change."

"Are these people living alone, with no major responsibility or others to take care of, or are they people overwhelmed with all of the jobs and responsibilities they have? We need to find out more about the conditions under which these people are living."
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In September researchers confirmed an 18 percent spike in youth suicides in the United States in 2004 persisted into 2005 after more than a decade of decreases.

And international research published in January found that the young, single, female, poorly educated and mentally ill are all at higher risk of suicide.

According to the World Health Organization, suicide rates have increased by 60 percent in the last 45 years. Depression is the leading cause of suicide.

Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the United States