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Oct 6, 2022
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RevolutionDeathsquad

Previous username: hansel
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Joined: Oct 25, 2004
Last login: Apr 26, 2024
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Can you guess the % of suicides in Utah that involve a teen victim?

Soupie Grandma Sycamore

10/5/22 8:29pm

What a fun game?

Courtimedes

10/5/22 8:30pm

20%? I think older males with chronic illness are the highest demo IIRC

EQD2

10/5/22 8:30pm

50%

KingDave

10/5/22 8:32pm

Whatever it is, it is too high.

crack

10/5/22 8:34pm

Of course. Any is too many.

Soupie

10/5/22 8:39pm

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Mikey

10/5/22 8:36pm

Answer: May be surprised.

Soupie

10/5/22 8:44pm

I’m surprised indeed. I thought I was guessing high, but didn’t think I was so far off.

KingDave

10/5/22 9:14pm

The suicide rate rate regardless of demographic is effectively 0.

snowbird

10/5/22 8:45pm

Expound

Dataguy

10/5/22 9:45pm

I think he just means that, every year, 0.0014% of Americans die by suicide.

Zooropa

10/5/22 10:47pm

I get it, but first, it's 0.014% of US, which is 1.75% of all deaths

Dataguy

10/6/22 6:50am

Absolutely. I'm with you.

Zooropa

10/6/22 6:53am

Hope everyone knows my purpose is not to brush aside. I feel we sometimes get hyper focused on youth

Soupie

10/6/22 7:08am

I think that we implicitly consider a teen suicide to be more tragic than the suicide of an adult (we value and protect

dilbert

10/6/22 10:10am

Absolutely and I think that's an appropriate expectation given the age & maturity. Just unexpected & teasing through

Soupie

10/6/22 11:05am

Looks like it is the leading cause of death of those 10 to 24

Baron

10/5/22 8:48pm

That's true but wasn't the question.

Soupie

10/5/22 8:52pm

Seems like a more important question. We shouldn't diminish it at all.

joelvandyne

10/6/22 9:18am

You're welcome to address that in your own OP. I was doing some research & this stat stood out as unexpected.

Soupie

10/6/22 9:28am

What are you researching? Will you share the results with CB when you are done?

Defenestrator

10/6/22 9:39am

Adolescent suicide prevention. And no.

Soupie

10/6/22 9:40am

That's too bad. Hope you uncover useful approaches for that.

Defenestrator

10/6/22 9:44am

People need to stop calling reading a little on a topic “doing research”

spinner

10/6/22 10:42am

Or people w/ degrees & licenses don’t have time or interest in having the internet peanut gallery

Soupie

10/6/22 10:53am

I encourage you to reconsider. Patiently engaging with the internet peanut

Defenestrator

10/6/22 11:42am

...except for when is is a licensed professional who actually does real research

The Dark Knight

10/6/22 12:05pm

Are you disputing the stat she shared?

UNLVcougar

10/6/22 12:16pm

RE: Seems like a more important question. We shouldn't diminish it at all.

Radioactive Coug

10/6/22 10:22am

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SuperTank

10/5/22 9:01pm

What % of total deaths involve a teen victim in Utah?

I'mnotacber

10/5/22 9:17pm

Not good to be a white male. Especially a middle aged white male.

Viva Campeche

10/5/22 9:20pm

The burden on their shoulders is high. The empathy for them is low. Expectations

Zooropa

10/5/22 9:44pm

Sounds like those dudes could have used a lot less toxic masculinity growing up,

joelvandyne

10/6/22 10:35am

The confirmation bias is strong here …

RevolutionDeathsquad

10/6/22 10:44am

Or I just understand what the term really means instead of what Tucker Carlson

joelvandyne

10/6/22 10:48am

Is Wikipedia’s definition wrong?

RevolutionDeathsquad

10/6/22 11:02am

If you wanted to prove you understood the argument being made you linked the

joelvandyne

10/6/22 11:10am

See step 1 in managing your own curated reality was to selectively

RevolutionDeathsquad

10/6/22 11:10am

You are assigning to me positions that I did not take and think that by taking

joelvandyne

10/6/22 11:33am

I come to CB for all takes, even the bad ones.

UNLVcougar

10/6/22 12:17pm

Or, a society wanting to blame all ills on them, regardless of the individuals

Spine

10/6/22 1:07pm

Too many

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