Recession is starting to take lives
58Higher Rates of attempted suicide
Is the recession causing the higher rate of suicide attempts!!!!! Working in a hospital we have been experiencing a higher rate of suicide attempts with patients raging in age for 27 through 45 years of age is this due to the loss of job or the inability to provide for their families!!!! We are averaging three to four a week just in the area that I work. That is not the total for the hospital itself, this is extremely terrifying!! If you think about it these patient are mother, father, husbands and wives!!!!!! Needless to say we are just seeing the ones that did not succeed that is more frighten. For the most part when you talk to some of these people they had a awesome life up until the past 12 months or so. A good portion lost their jobs and when unable to find another quick enough lost their homes and then their families!!!!!!
How can we help them? they are a products of circumstance this is not by their choice. They are good hard working people that had the rug yanked out from underneath them. With the financial l situation in the world today it is nearly impossible to find a job that they can support a family with.
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Eldritch Elegy says:
9 months ago
"A disgruntled 58-year-old Wal-Mart employee lit himself on fire in a Wal-Mart parking lot Thursday night, saying only that he “couldn’t take it anymore,” ChicagoBreakingNews.com reported.
The man, who wasn’t identified, died later at the hospital.
The employee, who worked the overnight shift, doused himself in lighter fluid around 10 p.m. outside the Chicago-area discount store before setting himself on fire, according to ChicagoBreakingNews.com.
At least 10 people witnessed the act and several attempted to rescue the man by throwing their jackets on him in an effort to put out the flames — but he refused assistance.
“He said he didn’t want any help and threw the coats off,” said Randy Sater, a watch commander with the Bloomingdale fire department.
When questioned by a police officer at the scene as to why he was committing suicide, the man, who was by that time severely burned, said, “I just couldn’t take it anymore,” ChicagoBreakingNews.com reported."
... Recession, Wal-Mart, society. There will, unfortunately, always be suicides.
Mother Teresa believed that if everyone would take care of their own, things wouldn't be like this. That's why I don't worry too much about what's going on outside... I try to take care of myself, so I can care for the people who depend on me. That kind of thing creates ripples, which affect others in ways we can't imagine.