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When did you get soft?AZDuck said:Someone I don't know has killed himself. Maybe as more details emerge there will be a joke in there somewhere.
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Despite your anecdotal evidence, suicide rates are down from last century.PurpleThrobber said:
In his dickish way, what I think OBK is trying to say is that suicide among the young is at epidemic proportions - and perhaps the way society currently views it and is combating it isn't working.jhfstyle24 said:
You need to fuck off. Suicide is not a joke. I know people who have been in that situation. They're not selfish. Jackasses like you are the reason they go there. It's a dark place. You can call it selfish, but you have to understand that they feel that same burn. They're ashamed that that's the choice they feel they have to make. Quit talking like you've been there, done that. Have some fucking empathy. I have friends who have been there and they were the nicest, most selfless people you've ever met. You just don't get it. They feel there is no way out, and they aren't getting taught anything about it. It's hard to get help. People are ashamed. They're basically in a lose-lose situation. Go one way and it just makes it worse, go the other and the same thing happens. There's a reason suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among teens. Please quit being a dick and have some empathy. Please.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Fuck off. The guy was a dickhead for doing that to his family. And I can say that, because I personally know someone who did that. It takes a selfish motherfucker to do that generally.jhfstyle24 said:
You used him as your punchline. Take the loss, edit the comment, and move on. Don't make light of suicide in any way.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Was making fun of doogs, not him. Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?jhfstyle24 said:
That's not faux outrage. This is a legitimate real life issue and has affected me and many other people. Most of the shit on here is funny but making fun of someone who committed suicide is over the line for me. Too far.oregonblitzkrieg said:The faux outrage is cute, coming from a bunch of boners who tell everyone to kill themselves every single day.
I am not quite as old as @RaceBannon but, in my youth, I honestly do not recall ANY young person taking their own life though I know it happened very rarely. Over the course of the last couple years, I can count multiple occurrences in which acquaintances were touched by suicide.
I can empathize with the mindset of the deceased - but can't condone the act or somehow hold up the victim as heroic. You said it yourself - "there's a reason suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among teens". Whatever that reason may be, 'talk to someone' or "call 1-800..." doesn't work and needs examination as to why this is now a somewhat accepted method of solving one's problems.
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So, US suicides, peaked under Carter. Chinteresting.
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Disagree. Your statistics are dated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html
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Dawgman thread IMO
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*gurgle* - Doxey
*snap* - dungy
*BOOM roasted* Helsinki
My wife and I are praying for his family -
But even with the 7% uptick since 2010, the rate is still below what it was in the 1980's and 1990's, and a 7% increase since 2010 isn't that huge of an increase over time, or over what the rate was in the 2000's. Dunno when you're youth was, but the fact that overall rates are relatively stable within a 15-20% range probably indicates that you are now more aware of this kind of shit than you were in you're youth, and information technology and social media alert you to these matters in ways that were not possible before the advent of internets boreds and MyInstaFaceSpaceGramTwatterBook.PurpleThrobber said:Disagree. Your statistics are dated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html -
Damn, you're right.whlinder said:
When did you get soft?AZDuck said:Someone I don't know has killed himself. Maybe as more details emerge there will be a joke in there somewhere.
http://forum.hardcorehusky.com/discussion/comment/432648/#Comment_432648
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Your statistics are skewed. From the story you posted:PurpleThrobber said:Disagree. Your statistics are dated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html
‘Federal health researchers said they chose 1999 as the start of the period they studied because it was a low point in the national suicide rate and they wanted to cover the full period of its recent sustained rise.’
They chose the low point as the baseline; of course that study will show a rise in the suicide rate. If I choose the Owen12 season as a baseline for Husky football, the last two seasons have been the greatest, ever.
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The anecdotal evidence makes sense. When the throbber was growing up we *knew* less people than people know now. We are connected to vastly more people than we used to be thanks to Gore and Zuckerberg. So of course we're going to know more people doing scary shit.UWhuskytskeet said:
Despite your anecdotal evidence, suicide rates are down from last century.PurpleThrobber said:
In his dickish way, what I think OBK is trying to say is that suicide among the young is at epidemic proportions - and perhaps the way society currently views it and is combating it isn't working.jhfstyle24 said:
You need to fuck off. Suicide is not a joke. I know people who have been in that situation. They're not selfish. Jackasses like you are the reason they go there. It's a dark place. You can call it selfish, but you have to understand that they feel that same burn. They're ashamed that that's the choice they feel they have to make. Quit talking like you've been there, done that. Have some fucking empathy. I have friends who have been there and they were the nicest, most selfless people you've ever met. You just don't get it. They feel there is no way out, and they aren't getting taught anything about it. It's hard to get help. People are ashamed. They're basically in a lose-lose situation. Go one way and it just makes it worse, go the other and the same thing happens. There's a reason suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among teens. Please quit being a dick and have some empathy. Please.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Fuck off. The guy was a dickhead for doing that to his family. And I can say that, because I personally know someone who did that. It takes a selfish motherfucker to do that generally.jhfstyle24 said:
You used him as your punchline. Take the loss, edit the comment, and move on. Don't make light of suicide in any way.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Was making fun of doogs, not him. Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?jhfstyle24 said:
That's not faux outrage. This is a legitimate real life issue and has affected me and many other people. Most of the shit on here is funny but making fun of someone who committed suicide is over the line for me. Too far.oregonblitzkrieg said:The faux outrage is cute, coming from a bunch of boners who tell everyone to kill themselves every single day.
I am not quite as old as @RaceBannon but, in my youth, I honestly do not recall ANY young person taking their own life though I know it happened very rarely. Over the course of the last couple years, I can count multiple occurrences in which acquaintances were touched by suicide.
I can empathize with the mindset of the deceased - but can't condone the act or somehow hold up the victim as heroic. You said it yourself - "there's a reason suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among teens". Whatever that reason may be, 'talk to someone' or "call 1-800..." doesn't work and needs examination as to why this is now a somewhat accepted method of solving one's problems.
Keeping depression in the closet didn't work.
There have been multiple (gratefully) unsuccessful suicide attempts in my family. It sucks ass.
Ts and Ps to the Helsinkis. -
Kids are softer now and the modern-age parenting style doesn't help at all.PurpleThrobber said:
In his dickish way, what I think OBK is trying to say is that suicide among the young is at epidemic proportions - and perhaps the way society currently views it and is combating it isn't working.jhfstyle24 said:
You need to fuck off. Suicide is not a joke. I know people who have been in that situation. They're not selfish. Jackasses like you are the reason they go there. It's a dark place. You can call it selfish, but you have to understand that they feel that same burn. They're ashamed that that's the choice they feel they have to make. Quit talking like you've been there, done that. Have some fucking empathy. I have friends who have been there and they were the nicest, most selfless people you've ever met. You just don't get it. They feel there is no way out, and they aren't getting taught anything about it. It's hard to get help. People are ashamed. They're basically in a lose-lose situation. Go one way and it just makes it worse, go the other and the same thing happens. There's a reason suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among teens. Please quit being a dick and have some empathy. Please.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Fuck off. The guy was a dickhead for doing that to his family. And I can say that, because I personally know someone who did that. It takes a selfish motherfucker to do that generally.jhfstyle24 said:
You used him as your punchline. Take the loss, edit the comment, and move on. Don't make light of suicide in any way.oregonblitzkrieg said:
Was making fun of doogs, not him. Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?jhfstyle24 said:
That's not faux outrage. This is a legitimate real life issue and has affected me and many other people. Most of the shit on here is funny but making fun of someone who committed suicide is over the line for me. Too far.oregonblitzkrieg said:The faux outrage is cute, coming from a bunch of boners who tell everyone to kill themselves every single day.
I am not quite as old as @RaceBannon but, in my youth, I honestly do not recall ANY young person taking their own life though I know it happened very rarely. Over the course of the last couple years, I can count multiple occurrences in which acquaintances were touched by suicide.
I can empathize with the mindset of the deceased - but can't condone the act or somehow hold up the victim as heroic. You said it yourself - "there's a reason suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among teens". Whatever that reason may be, 'talk to someone' or "call 1-800..." doesn't work and needs examination as to why this is now a somewhat accepted method of solving one's problems.
