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

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It occurs to me that maybe assisted suicide should be legal in certain situations. Prolonging life just for the sake of it strikes me as immoral having seen how miserable my mom was at the end.