Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017

Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by DanBC on Monday June 24, 2019 @12:33PM (#20265332)

But this isn't preventing only suicide -- it's one part of a package to reduce suicide.

It's a very important part, and you must have reducing access to means and methods if you want to reduce the numbers of people killing themselves.

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by SomeOldThrow on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:29PM (#20266048)

I disagree. Preventing suicide, even impulsive suicide, is impossible. I could enumerate all the ways I can see just looking around me but I don't want to ruin my day and yours. However, seeing that people are scared of this doesn't exactly make me think that society cares about me, it implies they're scared of how unhappy people are and have no idea what to do about it.

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by lazyasciiart on Monday June 24, 2019 @01:51PM (#20266333)

You are wrong. It is quite well established that blocking a specific method of suicide can prevent people from trying. What you say is true in a technical sense but is completely ignorant of the actual ways that humans behave.

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by SomeOldThrow on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:06PM (#20266502)

Yes, it can block people from trying that specific method. I have no idea how you would measure the impact on preventing people from trying at all. Do you have a source? I'm curious about how they measured it.

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by astura on Monday June 24, 2019 @10:02PM (#20270547)

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=923193...

>Anderson points to another example where simply making a change in people's access to instruments of suicide dramatically lowered the suicide rate. In England, death by asphyxiation from breathing oven fumes had accounted for roughly half of all suicides up until the 1970s, when Britain began converting ovens from coal gas, which contains lots of carbon monoxide, to natural gas, which has almost none. During that time, suicides plummeted roughly 30 percent — and the numbers haven't changed since.

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by SomeOldThrow on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @03:22AM (#20271858)

Point taken.

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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by smogcutter on Monday June 24, 2019 @02:34PM (#20266831)

This was a quick google away:

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/health/blocking-the-paths...

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