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Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says

www.cnn.com Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says | CNN

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

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None think about having to clean up all their blood and brain matter left over. Suicide is so selfish.
- Ironically your comment is incredibly selfish (you need to walk in their shoes) and based on nothing but your imagination. Some may take precautions to minimize cleanup.
  
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  thank you. its nice to hear or in this case read someone put it out so sanely and clearly. I do not get why other people feel they should tell someone else that they have to continue to exist because they know better than them.
  
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- Calling people who suffer from suicidal ideation or committed suicide selfish is exactly like calling kids with down syndrome idiots.
- It’s also selfish to force people to suffer due to our personal moral scruples. Allow assisted suicide.
- I try not judge these folks too harshly, they must be in incredible pain.
- That kind of gun-assisted suicide at least, for sure. There's still deaths of despair that are far from selfish acts, and moreso acts of desperation.
- Wall Street is selfish. Taking more profit than you need is selfish.
  
  These people were desperate. Many likely due to rampant American capitalistic selfishness forcing them to subsist on catfood so business crooks can have 2 vacation homes and 5 expensive cars instead of everyone benefitting from market prosperity.
  
  Selfishness is America's brand, but being driven to put a gun in your mouth and pull the trigger isn't selfishness, it is largely a consequence of other's selfishness. Our suicide rates are extreme in the supposedly "developed" world because selfish people demand everything and we let them do it at societal expense.

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