We know, thanks to a growing body of research on suicide and the conditions that accompany it, that more and more of us are living through a time of seamless black: a period of mounting clinical depression, blossoming thoughts of oblivion and an abiding wish to get there by the nonscenic route. Every year since 1999, more Americans have killed themselves than the year before, making suicide the nation’s greatest untamed cause of death. In much of the world, it’s among the only major threats to get significantly worse in this century than in the last....
This year, America is likely to reach a grim milestone: the 40,000th death by suicide, the highest annual total on record, and one reached years ahead of what would be expected by population growth alone. We blew past an even bigger milestone revealed in November, when a study lead by Ian Rockett, an epidemiologist at West Virginia University, showed that suicide had become the leading cause of “injury death” in America. ...
This development evades simple explanation. The shift in suicides began long before the recession, for example, and although the changes accelerated after 2007, when the unemployment rate began to rise, no more than a quarter of those new suicides have been tied to joblessness, according to researchers. Guns aren’t all to blame either, since the suicide rate has grown even as the portion of suicides by firearm has remained stable.
pstarr wrote:Carolyn Baker? Who is she?
Armageddon wrote:pstarr wrote:Carolyn Baker? Who is she?
She found him and said it was a self inflicted wound and to not look any further. I don't buy it. She's one of MR's close friends
pstarr wrote:Yes ennui2, it seems there are two threads of doomerism, one ecological (stated very clearly by Catton and Diamond, perhaps exaggerated by Lovelock), the other somewhat paranoid.
XOVERX wrote:I'm going to miss Ruppert if only due to his extremism. As for his mental state, you could tell everything you needed to know about it just from watching Collapse.
Ruppert has always confused me. I get a lot of joy fooling with the chickens, baling hay on the creek bottom, raising livestock, and watching my wife fix up the house. I don't understand why Ruppert didn't do something similar so that he wouldn't obsess so much.
Oh well. We all are part of the universe and someday we will all return to it in less organized form. Ruppert is there now.
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