OSOM: Suicide In America

Published: Feb. 3, 2020, 5 a.m.

b"SHR # 2462 :: OSOM: Suicide In America - John Romano - The CDC reported in January that suicides are up 40% over the past 17 years. Ask any American who's committing suicide and they'll inevitably reply young people or the economically underserved. Ask them why and they'll tell you bullying, income inequality, low socioeconomic standing, accessibility of guns and fatherless homes. But they'd be wrong. What if I told you 70% of all suicides in America are men. And the largest percentage are white middle to older aged men. And they're in the mid to top economic strata. So what's going on? And as men, what can we do?"