As lethal as those Islamist fighters have been, however, another “enemy” has proven far more deadly for American forces: themselves. A recent Pentagon study found suicide to be the leading cause of death among active-duty U.S. Army personnel.
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When white Australians are becoming increasingly what they regard as “Aboriginal” poor, homeless, incarcerated, suicidal, etc etc what are the chances of turning the tide for black people in a racist country without giving them all a Voice to Parliament. Meanwhile, arseholes like Dutton promises cake
Voting in the Voice to Parliament could be a stepping stone towards eradicating the high amount of Indigenous incarceration, suicide and poverty, writes Gerry Georgatos.
Source: Voice to Parliament a remedy for First Nations oppression
Last year, 165 Indigenous Australians died as a result of suicide. Despite continued efforts to improve suicide prevention programs, there has been no no appreciable reduction in the suicide rate in ten years.
While suicide is the 14th leading cause of death for non-Indigenous Australians, it is ranked fifth for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
We often equate suicide with mental illness, but as a recent Senate inquiry report into rural mental health found:
… in too many cases, the causes of suicide for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is not mental illness, but despair caused by the history of dispossession combined with the social and economic conditions in which Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples live.
This statement should not be a surprise, but it is all too easily forgotten. A diagnosis of mental illness is only one of a number of risk factors for suicide.
via It’s despair, not depression, that’s responsible for Indigenous suicide
A 65-year-old New York City cab driver from Queens, Nicanor Ochisor, hanged himself in his garage March 16, saying in a note he left behind that the ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft had made it impossible for him to make a living. It was the fourth suicide by a cab driver in New York in the last four months, including one Feb. 5 in which livery driver Douglas Schifter, 61, killed himself with a shotgun outside City Hall.
To stop people dying, we must make it easier for them to live
No, Sweden Does Not Have the Highest Suicide Rate | Psychology Today
Worth a Read The Nordic Theory of Everything compares the meaning of Individual Freedoms in USA with the Nordic North. It brings into focus the social model Australia takes for granted is irrationally following. Do we invest in the well being of our most valuable resource Australians? (ODT)
Spokesperson of the Israeli occupation army has recently said that the last three years have witnessed an increase in the number of suicide cases among the Israeli soldiers.
Source: » Eight Israeli Soldiers Commit Suicide Within 3 Months– IMEMC News
Young Palestinians are mourning the loss of two young artists from Gaza, a writer and an illustrator, both of whom represent Gaza’s lost generation, trapped by the hopelessness of Israel’s siege. By Qamar Taha Tragic news spread among youth in Gaza last week: Mohanned Younis, a young writer, just 22 years old, took his own life. Younis, who had graduated from a pharmacology program, wrote short stories. Some of his stories won prizes, and one was most recently nominated for the A.M. Qattan Foundation literary prize. He had tried on numerous occasions to leave the Gaza Strip in order to…
Source: Suicide and a lost generation: Gaza youth are dying before they can live | +972 Magazine
The doctor of the late Dr G Yunupingu believes the world-renowned musician chose to end his life by stopping dialysis and farewelling his closest friends in the days leading up to his death.
The Australia where a 10-year-old Indigenous girl kills herself is not separate from the Australia you live in – this issue concerns all of us
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