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RE: 20 United States Veterans a Day Commit Suicide; and Nobody Seems to Care
That's great news. It used to be 21 a day. It does sound like a lot unless you look at it statistically, the suicide rate for veterans is only a little higher than the suicide rate for the general population. When they were making a bid deal about the 21 a day it seemed like veterans must be committing suicide at many times the rate of civilians but it was only like 20% higher. This is not to say the VA could not do better.
It is many times higher than the general population.
Exactly how many times higher?
Crickets. That's all you'll hear. They won't bother to fact check.
Males in general have a much higher suicide rate
Men are always expected to never fall apart, being a man means being the main adversary against all of life's ills, being single all my life I can attest to what a challenge that kind of expectation can be, for a man falling short isn't consider acceptable to society. I have heard/known men in my life who lost everything for a number of reasons and couldn't face that inevitability of starting over and committed suicide.
yup and that was before men started being portrayed as vile buffoons.