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

  • profdc9@lemmy.world
    123·
    1 year ago

    Evolution has never stopped. Humans are simply creating new selection pressures. Humans are cruel to each other so that some will kill themselves. This will remain the case until cooperation becomes a dominant survival strategy.

    • Blue@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yes but evolution is natural, this rat race that pushes people to suicide it’s entirely fabricated.

    • tweeks@feddit.nl
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well, cooperation is a dominant survival strategy. But that does not mean it’s fair or that everyone will be an even slightly equally beneficial party.