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

  • starbreaker@kbin.social
    61·
    1 year ago

    What use is a cog that can’t cog anymore? Caring for elders is not built into our value system and not protected by our economic system.

    Also, what good is "care for depression" when the causes of depression aren't a "chemical imbalance" but having to live in a partriarchal capitalist society that only values men for what they can provide?

    • letsgocrazy@lemm.ee
      41·
      1 year ago

      What if constantly calling a system that fails men "the patriarchy" was part of the problem?

      What if calling a system that blames all men for a system that benefits a tiny elite was a large reason why so many men are totally dead disenfranchised with the concept? If there was even a one percent chance that was true - would you stop it doing it?

      • starbreaker@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        What would you suggest instead? The "kyriarchy"? The "military-industrial-congressional complex"? How about getting fisted by the invisible hand of the market?