An estimated 5 million living Americans have attempted suicide.
8/31/2009 8:54:23 PM
8/31/2009 8:55:21 PM
Compared to how many in the supposedly lesser nations? Being #1 is meaningless without a #2 to humiliate.
8/31/2009 8:55:45 PM
we're a bunch of failures
8/31/2009 8:56:33 PM
8/31/2009 8:57:39 PM
Don't we also work harder and longer than any other 1st world country? I bet that has something to do with it.
8/31/2009 8:58:08 PM
^ nah
8/31/2009 8:59:05 PM
8/31/2009 8:59:14 PM
i dont have google at my fingertips or anything, but im pretty sure we dont work nearly as hard as tons of places
8/31/2009 8:59:49 PM
Well on half the planet you don't need to commit suicide, just stop trying your damndest to survive and it'll happen for you.
8/31/2009 9:00:07 PM
We're a bunch of quitters.
8/31/2009 9:02:47 PM
also something like 157 people a year suicide by fire. thats fucking hardcore
8/31/2009 9:03:46 PM
8/31/2009 9:05:02 PM
8/31/2009 9:05:36 PM
From a percentage standpoint, I doubt we can trump Japan.
8/31/2009 9:05:39 PM
And I bet the japanese are much more successful at it. There's this thing called "honor" and "follow-through" that they're better at.Attempted is just another word for failure.
8/31/2009 9:07:20 PM
hell yeah, over there the cure for dishonor is sucking on a tailpipe
8/31/2009 9:08:33 PM
shit, they tie a rope around their own neck.
8/31/2009 9:09:35 PM
post your metro pic with the hat. only appropriate
8/31/2009 9:09:36 PM
any particular reason for the research and fascination of suicide?
8/31/2009 9:10:49 PM
black males prefer suicide at an early age. white males when they are old.
8/31/2009 9:12:01 PM
i saw it bolded on wikipedia and clicked it cause i wondered what it could possibly say besides what i figured it would sayplus i never planned on living to 31 so this must end now[Edited on August 31, 2009 at 9:13 PM. Reason : man i cant find that picture, i lost all my DC pics exept for one in some RIP emily thing on faceboo]
8/31/2009 9:12:06 PM
I would think there would be some amount of extreme ambiguity in classifying any death at age 80+ as a suicide...[Edited on August 31, 2009 at 9:14 PM. Reason : unless they leave a note or something...]
8/31/2009 9:14:26 PM
I never planned to live past 20, so each day is an unanticipated surprise.
8/31/2009 9:15:20 PM
that graph is a great example of how misleading graphs can bei remember my research, thats people per 100000 on the y-axis, where my mind normally thinks percentage by defaulti mean it also says so too, but rise over run and percentage over population]
8/31/2009 9:15:36 PM
i figured i wouldn't make it past 12. every day from here on out is a bonus.
8/31/2009 9:15:52 PM
I'm tired of all these whiny bitches on antidepressants, you know how much that stuff costs the health care system? Stop being such a loser douche and maybe people will stop hating you and you wont be so sad all the time.
8/31/2009 9:16:24 PM
i agree paul09128930 but it sure would be a bitch to just stop dosing half the country and wait for the results to flush out. jesus that would be wacky.
8/31/2009 9:17:47 PM
it would be like the WoW freakout vid, times a million.
8/31/2009 9:18:39 PM