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To: Neocon who wrote (46746)	5/7/1999 11:09:00 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

Talk at ya tomorrow. BTW, read your wife's post. She seems like a real peach. What does she see in you? <ggg> JLA

To: Neocon who wrote (46746)	5/7/1999 11:11:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 67261

The following statistic's from CDC - National Center for Injury Prevention and Control Suicide in the United States The Problem Suicide took the lives of 30,484 Americans in 1992 (11.1 per 100, 000 population) 1 More people die from suicide than from homicide in the United States. On an average day, 84 people die from suicide and an estimated 1,900 adults attempt suicide. Males are at least four times more likely to die from suicide than are females. However, females are more likely to attempt suicide than are males. In 1992, white males accounted for 73 % of all suicides. Together, white males and white females account for almost 91% of all suicides. Suicide rates are higher than the national average for some groups of Asian and Native Americans. Suicide rates are generally higher than the national average in the western states and lower in the eastern and Midwestern states. Nearly 60 % of all suicides are committed with a firearm. Suicide rates increase with age and are highest among- Americans aged 65 years and older. The ten-year period, 1980-1990, was the first decade since the 1940s that the suicide rate for older residents rose instead of declined. Firearms were the most common method of suicide used by both men (74%) and women (31%). Risk factors for suicide among older persons differ from those among the young. Older persons have a higher prevalence of alcohol abuse, depression, a greater use of highly lethal methods, and social isolation. They also make fewer attempts per completed suicide, have a higher male-to-female ratio than other groups, have often visited a health-care provider before their suicide, and have more physical illnesses. Persons under age 25 years accounted for 16.4% of all suicides in 1992. >From 1952-1992, the incidence of suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled. From 1980-1992, the rate of suicide among persons aged 15-19 years increased by 28.3 % and among persons aged 10-14 years by 120%. For African American males aged 15-19, the rate increased 165.3 %. For young, people 15 to 24 years old, suicide is the third leading cause of death, behind unintentional injury and homicide. In 1992 more teenagers and young adults died from suicide than died from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease combined. Among persons aged 15-19 years, firearm-related suicides accounted for 81 % of the increase in the overall rate of suicide from 1980-1992. People living in a household where a firearm is kept are almost five times more likely to die by suicide than people who live in gun-free homes. (Ref.: Kellerman et al, Suicide in the home in relation to gun ownership. New England Journal of Medicine 1992;327;467-72) The risk for suicide among young people is greatest among young white males; however, from 1980 through 1992, suicide rates increased most rapidly among young black males. Although suicide among children is a rare event, the dramatic increase in the rate among persons aged 10-14 years underscores the urgent need for intensifying efforts-to prevent suicide among- persons in this age group. 1Suicide data was obtained from vital statistics on the underlying causes of death prepared annually by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. URL to follow....