1 in 100 Adults Made Suicide Plans Last Year
About 1 in every 100 U.S. adults reported making plans to commit suicide in the past year, with suicide attempts more common among Rhode Islanders and serious thoughts of suicide most common among people in Utah.
Because suicide is a preventable problem, the first-ever state-by-state snapshot of how frequently Americans consider, plan or attempt to end their lives suggests there are opportunities to intervene before people succeed in killing themselves, according to a report released today by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nationwide, someone dies by their own hand every 15 minutes, with millions more entertaining thoughts of ending it all.
Exhibit A: why no matter how livid you are or how much of an asshole the person is being, telling someone to just go kill themselves is kind of a dick move.
^This.
