DuPage County, Illinois: “Coroner Richard Jorgensen issued a warning Thursday that the number of suicides in the county between Jan. 1 and June 30 rose from 44 in 2019 to 54 in 2020, a 23% increase. …This year overdose deaths are 52% higher than the same time last year, with the majority occurring after the…
… a personal reflection Tampa (AFP) – Life expectancy in the United States dropped yet again as drug overdose deaths continued to climb — taking more than 70,000 lives in 2017 — and suicides rose, a US government report said Thursday. The drug overdose rate rose 9.6 percent compared to 2016, while suicides climbed…
Robin Williams, Born: July 21, 1951, Died: August 11, 2014. R.I.P. From the May 2014 edition of The New Criterion by Emily Esfahani Smith “The Catastrophe of Suicide: How suicide hurts us all:” “Over the past few months, there have been several heartbreaking reminders of the rise of suicide across this nation, a topic…
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