FeedsOregonLive reports breaking news: of the 748 violent deaths in Oregon, 555 were suicides... ...in 2005.
The OregonLive blog is reporting that "Suicide overwhelmingly remains Oregon's number one violent cause of violent death." What does that even mean? Moving past the strange headline, however, there are some fairly interesting statistics (though it's all 2005 data). For instance, there were only 748 violent deaths in Oregon in 2005. Of those, 555 were suicides. That means that only 193 people were violently killed in our fair state! Woo! For those interested, "guns" accounted for "nearly 54 percent" of the remaining deaths. But, what's awesome? Poison clocked in at number 3, with 21 percent. Must be the large Russian community doing Putin's bidding.
The blog post points out a few other interesting things, like the fact that veterans have a much higher suicide rate than others. Must be the combination of PTSD and being mistreated by the system that used the best years of their lives for its financial gain.
Why OregonLive has decided to treat this as breaking news, I don't know. It still is, however, fairly interesting. Assuming you read it here and not there, of course.
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You can bypass Oregon Live and read the full study Here
There's actually some information and recommendations there. My first pass seems to indicate that the suicide rate in Oregon is high.
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That's seems like a terribly high suicide rate. I wonder what it is in other states.
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The study has some details:
"The older adult suicide rate was 25.5 per 100,000, which was 78 percent higher than the national average of 14.3 per 100,000 in 2004. Mental and physical health problems among older adults were frequently reported circumstances"
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