Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says | CNN
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The suicide rate in the United States spiked in 2021, reversing two years of decline, and rates among older men were especially high, a new report says.

Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report

  • @[email protected]
    2•8 months ago

    I don’t know how I feel about that. I hate that the state gets to choose who dies, but nitrogen isn’t a bad death.

    Imagine feeling like a human for sparing someone a horrendous death.

    My friend, we have so long to go.

    • @[email protected]
      1•8 months ago

      I think hypoxia is a shitty death regardless - whether drowning or just breathing N2 without O2. CO2 causes gasping, I’d have thought CO might be OK since it’s quick but maybe it’s politically unpopular because it evokes dad in the driveway with the engine running and a hose duct-taped into the cabin. Indeed, a long way to go regardless.