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Suicide Notes: Current Rates and Suicide Through the Ages

NOTES ON suicD E suiciDE HELP; 24/2/365 NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE NATIONAL HOPELINE NETWORK 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) www.SUICIDEPREVENTIONLIFELINE.ORG www.HOPELINE.COM mODER TIMES: GLOBAL 1 1 MILLION SUICIDES EVERY YEAR #1 OR 1 SUICIDE EVERY 4O SECONDS SECONDS COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST SUICIDE RAFES GREENLAND IS THE SUICIDE CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, BUT IT ONLY HAS 56,37O CITIZENS SO THEIR 62 SUICIDES A YEAR PUTS THEM WELL OVER THE TOP. SUICIDE CAPITAL OF EURCOPE GLOBAL UICIDE RATE (16 SUICIDESs FOR EVERY 100,000 PEOPLE) #4 #5 #10 #33 108.1 31.7 31.6 26.4 25.6 22.9 22.23 21.8 21.7 21.7 12 SUICIDES PER 100,000 PEOPLE ESTIMATED NUMBER OF SUICIDES A YEAR 62 16,000 940 200 4,300 2,200 300,000 450 2,200 27,500 37,500 133.6 U.S. CHINA ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOSTr OF ALL SUICIDES, AND ITS ONE OF THE ONLY COUNTRIES WHERE WWOMEN HA VE A 79.2 HIGHER RATE THAN MEN. THIS BAR WOULD GO ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM OF THE 54.6 INFOGRAPHIC. 48.7 43.0 39.9 39.0 40.0 34.6 36.2 26.3 22.1 20.1 19.5 13.4 3.2 11.6 10.6 19.4 8.8 9.4 MODERN TiMES: AMERICA 38,364 SUICIDES IN 2010 SUICIDE IS THE 10TH LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH IN U.S. EVERY 13 THE MINUTES SUICIDES PER 100,000 PEOPLE BY GENDER $ AGE 2.76 11.45 10-24 YEAR-OLDS 7.35 25.37 25-64 YEAR-OLDS 4.04 29.05 65 YEAR -OLDS AND UP SUICIDES PER 100,000 PEOPLE BY GENDER $ RACE FEMALE MALE 7.9 27.6 NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN/ALASKAN 6.7 26 NON-HISPANIC WHITE 2.4 12.3 HISPANIC 11 NON-HISPANIC BLACK 4 9.5 ASIAN PACIFIC ISLANDER SUICIDES PER 100,000 PEOPLE BY GENDER AGE $ METHOD FIREARM SUFFOCATION POISON ALL OTHERS 5.8% 25.5% 18% 49.7% 36.5% 48.5% 10-24 YEAR-OLDS 15% 30.5% 51.9% 42.8% 25% 17.4% 25-64 YEAR-OLDS 8.8% 35% 36.1% 79.1% 16.5% 65 YEAR OLDS AND UP 33.3% 23% 20.8% TESTED POSITIVE. TESTED POSITIVE TESTED POSITIVE FOR ALCOHOL FOR ANTIDEPRESSANTS FOR OPIATES ONLY RECENTLY HAS SUICIDE COME TO BE VIEWED AS A MENTAL HEALTH ISSUE. IT USED TO BE VIEWED AS SINFUL, CRIMINAL, PERSONAL OR EVEN COURAGEOUS. COLONIAL TimES;"HELL Noll THE COLONIES LOOKED TO THE COMMON LAW OF ENGLAND AND TO THE BIBLE FOR THEIR STANCE ON SVICIDE; SO NOT ONLY WAS It A SIn (WORTHY OF HELL) BUT ALSO A CRIME. SELF-MURDER RESULTED IN THE PROPERTY AND POSSESSIONS OF THE CRIMINAL BEING SEIZED, OFTEN LEAVING THEIR FAMILY HELPLESS. MEDIEVAL TIMES: "DON'T ASK DONt TELL! BY 1178, THE WORD SUICIDA HAD BEEN COINED AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS SUICIDE WERE THAT ir SHOULD BE A PRIVATE MATTER, POLITELY CONCEALED. BUr, IF IT WERE BELIEVED THAT SOMEONE HAD SELF-KILLED, THEY WOULD DRAG THE CORPSE THROUGH THE CITY AND BURN IT. ANCIENT TIMES: "DO WHAT YOU MUST! IN MOST EARLY CIVILIZATIONS, SUICIDE WAS NOT SEEN AS A CRIME OR A SIN. IN FACT, IT WAS SEEN AS A LEGITIMATE WAY TO: - ESCAPE A MISERABLE EXISTENCE - RELEASE LOVED ONES FROM THE BURDEN OF CAREGIVINNG - AVOID SHAME OR REGAIN DIGNITY FROM SHAME ANCIENT EGYPT SUICIDE DID NOT VIOLATE THE LEGAL CODE. IT WAS A JUST WAY TO END PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL SUFFERING. (THEY OFTEN USED SNAKE VENOM ANCIENT GREECE THE STOICS, CYNICS, AND SOME EPICUREANS BELIEVED IN THE NATURAL RIGHT OF THE INDIVIDUAL TO ZENO (STOICISM ). EPICURUS PERFORM SUICIDE. ANTISTHENES ( EPICUREANISM) ( CYNICISM) ANCIENT JAPAN SAMURAI WARRIORS PREFERRED DEATH OVER CAPTURE. IF DEFEATED OR OUTNUMBERED, HE WOULD PERFORM SEPPUKU, BELLY CUTTING, ro THIS MINDSET KEEP HIS HONOUR INTACT. TRANSLATES TO THE KAMIKAZE PILOTS OF WWII. ANCIENT ROME COURAGE AND DIGNITY WERE OF UTMOST IMPORTANCE TO ROMAN NOBILITY. IF A PERSON'S LIFE WAS TARNISHED WITH A SHAMEFUL ACT, SUICIDE WAS A WAY TO REGAIN THE GALATIAN SUICIDE SOME OF THE DIGNITY LOST. suiciDE HELP: 24/7/365 NATIONAL SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE NATIONAL HOPELINE NETWORK 1-800-273-TALK (8255) 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433) www.SUICIDEPREVENNTIONLIFELIINE.ORG www.HOPELINE.COM SOURCES www.CROUCHFOUNDATION.ORG/HISTORY-OF-SUICIDE.HTML www.SUITE 101.cOm/ARTTICLE/ AC-OF-SUICIDE-AND-SHAME-AND-DISGRACE -IN-ANCIENT-ROME-AND-JAPAN-A327811 www.HISTORY.AC.UK/REVIEWS/REVIEW/75 www.UTA.EDU/PHILOSOPHY/FACULTY/BURGESS-JACKSON/ 0017-20 THE %20LEGAL%20STATUS%200F%20SUICIDE%20m%20EARLY%20AMERICA.PDE www.wHO.NT/MENTAL_HEALTH/PREVENTION/SUICIDE/SUICIDEPREVENT/EN/ www.CDc.Gov/VIOLENCEPREVENTION/SUICIDE/STATISTICS/AAG.HTML www.WEBSPACE.SHIP.EDU/CGBOER/LATERGREEKS.HTML www.MUSEEVIRTUEL"VIRTUALMUSEUM,Ca/EDu/VIEwLorrDA.DOSMETHOD=PREVIEWLANG=EN$D=501 www.RESHAFIM.ORG.IL/AD/EGYPT/PEOPLE/SUICIDE.HTM www.MEDIEVALISTS.NET/2011/09/01/ SEVEN-SHILLINGS-AND-A-PENNY-FEMALE-SUICIDE-IN-LATE-MEDIEVAL-ENGLAND/ www.IASP.INFO/PDF/PAPERS/BERTOLOTE.PDF www.EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG/wIKI/LIST_OF_COUNTRIES_BY_SUICIDE_RATE www.wHO.Nr/MENTAL_HEALTH/PREVENTION/SUICIDE RATES/EN/INDEX.HTML www.BIOMEDCENTRAL.COM/1471-244X/9/20 www.BESJOURNAL.COM/FREEARTICLES/PAST ISSUES/2005/NO6/200701/ Po200701127005471468546320051863758.PDF www.cDc.Gov/VIOLENCEPREVENTION/PDE/SUICIDEDATASHEET-A.PDE BROUGHT TO YoU BY: www.bestmastersincounseling.com DESIGNED BY ERIC PHILLIPS.NET GREENLAND GREENLAND GREENLAND SOUTH KOREA SOUTH KOREA SOUTH KOREA LITHUANIA LITHUANIA LITHUANIA GUYANA GUYANA GUYANA KAZAKHSTAN KAZAKHSTAN S KAZAKHSTAN BELARUS BELARUS VNIHD CHINA VNIHO SLOVENIA VIN ヨ へ OTS VIN3 へ O 人 コマ ら NAH HUNGARY 人 石 V ら NAH JAPAN JAPAN JAPAN U.S.

Suicide Notes: Current Rates and Suicide Through the Ages

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Only recently has suicide come to be viewed as a mental health issue. It used to be viewed as sinful, criminal, personal or even courageous. Here we explore historic and current views and statistics a...

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