It's weird to frame the problem of suicide around it being the biggest killer of men under 45. What would you prefer they died of?
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every other cause of death has responded to modernity
suicide rate now is about the same as it was in 1900, but in 1900 it was .8% of deaths, now around 1.6%
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I keep meaning to write this up - shot up during the depression then fell, basically flat since then -
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many sources of evidence suggest it’s a response to suffering and not a “mental health” thing
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*in the US
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