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the social situation in america is quite bad, especially for young white males which is why after 80 year olds 25 to 35 year olds there are most likely to commit suicide, whites are most likely to commit suicide followed by native american women, and men are around 4 times more likely to commit suicide. I don’t feel envious of them in the slightest

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I have read nothing, my guess is going to be Capitalism, most people are destitute, and when things get super bad its near impossible to get yourself a better lot, and ways to end your life are realitivly easy to come by, and so that choice becomes preferable

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also covid?

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surprising reasons

It’s the material conditions of working class Statesians again. How surprising.

I hate how suicide is treated as some mysterious issue by the bourgeois media. How hard is it to think that maybe making life easier and worth living would make more people want to stay alive?

Every time a liberal politician says “we have to be practical” about implementing basic social welfare such as higher minimum wage or universal healthcare, remember that they are explicitly weighing the amount of people who will die or kill themselves without those things.

As one author puts it:

“Suicide hotline crisis numbers and efforts to help people at the individual level are all amazing and necessary, but our work shows that higher-level, institutional interventions are also critical in addressing this crisis,” said Simon. “Giving a person a job or proper health care can also be a suicide-prevention tool.”

If anybody has access to the paper, could you upload it somewhere and give me a ping? I really want to read it, but it’s not in the sci-hub yet.

Managed to get access, here’s the paper in catbox.

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Yeah, I can’t say I was surprised by any of that.

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likely the economic cooling. ex: people piling on debt, car truck getting repo’d, people getting evicted or laid off or both.

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