2012-09-23

American social mood: suicides outpace car crashes

People commit suicide when they are depressed. When the overall social mood is negative, more people feel depressed and the suicide rate increases.

More Americans now commit suicide than die in car crashes as miserable economy takes its toll
The results were compiled using National Centre for Health Statistics data gathered from 2000 to 2009.
Researchers noted a 25 per cent decrease in car accident deaths, medicalxpress.com reported, while deaths from falls rose 71 per cent, from poisoning 128 per cent and from suicide 15 per cent.

...The shift makes suicide the most frequent cause of injury deaths, followed by car crashes, poisoning, falls and murder.
According to the article, the suicide rate is likely under counted because overdoses and falls include some misidentified suicides.

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