US Suicide Rate Surges - While those "evil" socialist countries are the happiest in the world

[adigal]

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/health/us-suicide-rate-surges-to-a-30-year-high.html?&target=comments&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&modref=HPCommentsRefer&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news#commentsContainer

This is startling and very upsetting. Most of the commenters seem to get it, though: the income inequality, the lack of security and the lack of community are taking a toll on us.

[Jackie Wilson Said]

1. Heard about this earlier. Makes perfect sense. Between increased opiate abuse

and the outrageous income inequality, we can expect this.

Having more guns than people, helps boost these figures of course.

[Downwinder]

2. We have created a world that people choose not to live in.

Step out the door to GD-P. Does that make you want to stay round?

[applegrove]

3. Unless churches teach love every single day, they don't save people.

So much of what the GOP has done to a multitude of institutions needs to be undone.