More Americans now commit suicide than are killed in car crashes as miserable economy takes its toll

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2012-09-25 00:32

It takes a non-US news source to report this, too. And as already reported, we can be pretty sure the rise is attributable to male suicide. If it were females committing suicide more like this, you can be certain it'd be front-page news in the US MSM. Excerpt:

"Suicide is the cause of more deaths than car crashes, according to an alarming new study.

The number of people who commit suicide in the U.S. has drastically increased while deaths from car accidents have dropped, making suicide the leading cause of injury death.

Suicides via falls or poisoning have risen significantly and experts fear that there could be many more unaccounted for, particularly in cases of overdose.

'Suicides are terribly under-counted,' said Ian Rockett, author of the study, published on Thursday in the American Journal of Public Health.

'I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe. We have a situation that has gotten out of hand.'"

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The last time I checked at the CDC is was 80% male - more than 24,000 male suicides per year. If women had a suicide rate as high as that, feminists would be tearing down the doors of government to see it changed.

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Submitted by MR on Tue, 2012-09-25 05:31