Suicide rates in the US are highest among elderly men, and most involve guns, CDC report says | CNN
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The suicide rate in the United States spiked in 2021, reversing two years of decline, and rates among older men were especially high, a new report says.

Senior men have higher rates of suicide than average, and firearms were involved in more than three-quarters of those deaths in 2021, according to a CDC report

  • BeMoreCareful@lemdro.idEnglish
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    10 months ago

    “There’s too much identity tied up in one’s work, so that is lost [after retirement]. And then there’s the cultural script of what maleness means in in our culture, so men just won’t admit or won’t receive care for depression because of that sense that it’s somehow not what a man does.”

    What use is a cog that can’t cog anymore? Caring for elders is not built into our value system and not protected by our economic system.

    Hell, it may be the only way to retire in a few more years.

    • ColorcodedResistor@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      that’s how i plan to retire. nothing towards savings because it all goes to surviving. and i DIY, budget and save money however frugal. and the only thing im waiting for is my wife to pass first, she would never forgive me. then by that time ill wheel myself up to a fire station and give a shout out to Deiter Dengler as i exit stage left with a .45

    • starbreaker@kbin.social
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      10 months ago

      What use is a cog that can’t cog anymore? Caring for elders is not built into our value system and not protected by our economic system.

      Also, what good is “care for depression” when the causes of depression aren’t a “chemical imbalance” but having to live in a partriarchal capitalist society that only values men for what they can provide?

      • letsgocrazy@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        What if constantly calling a system that fails men “the patriarchy” was part of the problem?

        What if calling a system that blames all men for a system that benefits a tiny elite was a large reason why so many men are totally dead disenfranchised with the concept? If there was even a one percent chance that was true - would you stop it doing it?

        • starbreaker@kbin.social
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          10 months ago

          What would you suggest instead? The “kyriarchy”? The “military-industrial-congressional complex”? How about getting fisted by the invisible hand of the market?