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"Suicides are terribly undercounted; I think the problem is much worse than official data would lead us to believe," study author Ian Rockett said. Rockett, a professor of epidemiology at West Virginia University, believes that as many as 20 percent of deaths could be unrecognized suicides. He pointed to overdoses in particular, many of which were caused by prescription drugs.
He said that this rise was a problem mostly swept under the rug, and he would like to see the same amount of attention placed on suicides as there is on traffic fatalities.
The study authors examined data provided by the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics to determine the number of injury deaths. They found that unintentional and intentional deaths had increased 10 percent between 2000 and 2009 but car accident deaths do not account for that jump.
Deaths from car accidents decreased 25 percent, while deaths from poisoning rose 125 percent, deaths from falls rose 71 percent, and deaths from suicides rose 15 percent. Suicide is now the leading cause of injury deaths.
Recently, the U.S. government, and private companies like Facebook, are attempting to lower suicide rates. In 2009, 37,000 Americans took their own lives. Another 500,000 were considered at risk for suicide.
Reasons for the decline in car accident deaths can be credited to a number of different things. Standards for automakers have increased, adding airbags to many cars, and laws in many states have made it a crime not to use child restraints, seat belts or motorcycle helmets. The penalties against underage drinking, too, have saved many lives.
Interestingly, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration also thanks the recession for lowering car accident fatalities.
The government bureau states that fatalities have traditionally dipped during recessions and that states whose unemployment rate increased more dramatically also had lower numbers of car accident deaths. Perhaps that link exists because, during bad economic times, people are less likely to have the money for gas and car maintenance, causing them to be less likely to drive.
If you or a loved one is having thoughts of suicide, visit the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline's website or call 1-800-273-TALK (8255). Prevention of suicide and other unintentional injuries could lengthen a person's life by as much as three decades.
The study was published in the American Journal of Public Health.
... are also attempted suicides, and you get an even fuller picture of the situation.
If you can be suppressed forcefully enough for a sufficient amount of time, you will attempt to end your life. The impact of a bullet on a person has a similar effect.
I think it would really help, for starters, for the people involved in this problem to know what human death really is. Many doctors are aware of this, because they have learned to keep "dead" human bodies "alive" in order to harvest tissues from them. They know the difference. In a dead human body, "nobody's home." Doctors who have been around dead bodies can tell you about this.
What went away? We call it the soul, the spirit, or the higher self. In a damaged body (we assume, once we are aware of this) that the being must have been forced away from its body by the pain of the damage done to it. But those who have fought to the death in close quarters can tell you that some people can be killed by an injury, or sudden shock, that would simply annoy someone else. In other words, how easily a person dies is related to how much the person wants to live.
To the extent that we are seeing a rise in death rates, or in conditions that would be expected to cause death, we are seeing, in the population as a whole, an decrease in its desire to remain alive. This is a sure sign of increase in suppressive activities.
At some point, body death becomes necessary and remedial. But in theory, if a person were able to remain in a state of mind that refused death, they would never die. As spiritual beings are immortal, there is a certain amount of self-deception going on here, in order to be involved in the game of having a body. But that doesn't change the fact that the game goes much better in a suppression-free environment where beings only have to drop their bodies if that's what they really want to do.