SUICIDE

[NightOwl]

Thanks to this thread I've just learned suicide is skyrocketing! the economy seems to play a role in some of it, loss of job, foreclosure etc., most of us have heard about people over extending themselves with credit cards but, I don't recall spendthrift suicide.

I cannot understand people who want to exit out of life because of economic problems. They need to re-think here, life can be very unfair, cruel and harsh and things don't always go the way we planned. People need to learn to be survivors not losers.

Interesting article below

More Americans Committing Suicide than During the Great Depression
Posted on May 17, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog


The number of deaths by suicide has also surpassed car crashes, and many connect the increase in suicides to the downturn in the economy. Around 35,000 Americans kill themselves each year (and more American soldiers die by suicide than combat; the number of veterans committing suicide is astronomical and under-reported). So you’re 2,059 times more likely to kill yourself than die at the hand of a terrorist.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/05/m...ssion.html