Suicide rates for middle-age people highest since 1998

[OhioChick]

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Marcia M. Rownd knew instinctively that something was terribly wrong.
As she and her son walked away from a wedding that day, she suddenly felt such sadness she started to cry.

For four days Rownd had left messages on her father’s answering machine. "Give me a call." "I love you." For four days, her messages went unanswered.

Rownd was visiting her mother in Canton when the call she'd been expecting finally came. As her mother spoke to her father's sister, Rownd walked out into the October coolness to clear her head.

“I knew it would be a lot worse for my mother because I already knew,” she said recently. “I just never thought it would be suicide.”

More: http://www.ajc.com/lifestyle/suicide-rates-for-middle-1184867.html

[Cali_Democrat]

1. It's the economy

30 years of war against the middle class is definitely taking it's toll.

[cutlassmama]

2. Yep, but the criminals don't care that they are collapsing our system.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. People are feeling alienated for a whole lot of reasons.

The most aware are the ones that will be hurt the most.

[locahungaria]

3. Wow, what a deeply sad article....

....and such a troubling symptom of our diseased system.

Thanks for posting this.

[reggie the dog]

4. the economy is in the shitter, divorce rates through the roof

my wife left me and i lost my job in 2010.... i was really down and i can understand that in the usa you are even more fucked when you lose your job and under even more pressure.