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[–]Nemacolin[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

It is good to be suspicious of numbers like these. They can easily be manipulated. One of the very few numbers you can trust is the number of homicides. Few of these are moved into other categories.

I have long suspect the most-untrustworthy numbers are those for high school completion rates.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I have long suspect the most-untrustworthy numbers are those for high school completion rates.

Or poverty rates, or unemployment figures, or enemy casualties, or terrorism suspects, etc...

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I have some theories:

1) They ran out of depressed people.

2) They stopped taking "anti"-depressants.

3) Darwin evolved and now it's survival of the happiest (or not chronically depressed).

4) They found optimism when hearing about the decline of the American Empire.

5) Everyone got a new sexbot.

That's all I got. I hope Corbett covers this.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

6) Suicide is a younger persons option in Japan, and the population continues to age.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Old people, and in Korea, I think too. Don't want to be family burdens.

I would wager that a bunch of those younger suicides were largely seeded by external forces.

I've been suicidal twice in my life. As a teen I knew there was no future without education, or so they always said. I was afraid I'd have to work for a shitty life without an education. My home life was intolerable. I just wanted to be me and do my own artistic things. I wasn't a "bad" kid or a freak (yet), but I was different (yet still popular in highschool). My parents weren't having it. So I tried once. I moved out at 16 then again at 17 having learned about services to help kids like me. I was accepted at Sheridan College for animation before I was legally old enough, so I was free I guess. Meanwhile, my parents spent a fortune sending my next brother (I was the oldest, the icebreaker, and got most of the shit), to a private school in Quebec with the likes of Conrad Black's son. Unlike me, he was an actual bad apple, though not the worst or rotten, and after that he became a stereotypical frat bro then taught at schools around the world and has been principle at private schools around the USA for couple decades now, climbing the ladder of opportunity and being a dick.

But I digress. (I have issues with my Brother and Dad, a pill pushing doctor.) In 2008 after my girlfriend ironed out her issues with some happy pills I got a prescription. There was an economic meltdown happening, I was directing animation at a studio in Vancouver and commuting to Victoria on weekends - and I had shot a $30k film in Oakland that I hadn't finished (to this day). Putting my blind faith in Big Pharma scientism was the worst thing I ever did and those "anti"-depressants utterly tortured and destroyed me slowly over half a decade, with more than half a decade crawling out less-than and broken. There are worse things than dying and that is suffering past what it tolerable with no end in sight. I knew it could be worse if I fucked up and survived. I couldn't think clearly, much less research, or anything much other than watch MSM, and I had no idea about how to properly kill oneself. Since then I learned, just in case. Back then I tried several times and managed to safely fuck it up - obviously.

IMO, suicide should not be frowned upon nearly as much as it is. Most people simply have no fucking clue what it's like to be dragged to the line - and even over it. And the medical industry is half a joke, pretending like they've solved it all meanwhile still have barbaric practices, prison-like psycho-wards, and a bent business model to extend life at any cost rather than improve the quality of life.