Blood on Whose Hands?
US suicide rate rises as recession continues
New alarming statistics suggest that the number of suicides in the US has increased with the effects of the recession.
The latest surveys show the number of Americans killing themselves because of issues related with the economy may be climbing in the recessionary year of 2008 compared with that of 2007.
“Suicide among families for financial breakdown is of great importance and certainly preventable. However, it leaves incurable scars in families with such financial situation,” an American psychologist and Press TV contributor Mala Coleman King says.
“The growing rate of suicide is rising as recession continues. There were suicides before the recession. The new financial situation added to intensity,” King added.
Suicide in the workplace and the nation's military has also shown a steady rise.
Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a government-funded number linked to a network of crisis centers, are on pace to reach about 630,000 in 2009, according to officials there.
That is up about 15 percent from last year on top of a 36 percent increase in 2008.
The center says most calls they receive is from people who worry about bills, finding a job and their vague future.
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New alarming statistics suggest that the number of suicides in the US has increased with the effects of the recession.
The latest surveys show the number of Americans killing themselves because of issues related with the economy may be climbing in the recessionary year of 2008 compared with that of 2007.
“Suicide among families for financial breakdown is of great importance and certainly preventable. However, it leaves incurable scars in families with such financial situation,” an American psychologist and Press TV contributor Mala Coleman King says.
“The growing rate of suicide is rising as recession continues. There were suicides before the recession. The new financial situation added to intensity,” King added.
Suicide in the workplace and the nation's military has also shown a steady rise.
Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a government-funded number linked to a network of crisis centers, are on pace to reach about 630,000 in 2009, according to officials there.
That is up about 15 percent from last year on top of a 36 percent increase in 2008.
The center says most calls they receive is from people who worry about bills, finding a job and their vague future.
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