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#1 Sep 06 2007 at 12:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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The Associated Press wrote:
The suicide rate among ******* and teenage girls rose to its highest level in 15 years, and hanging surpassed guns as the preferred method, federal health officials reported Thursday.
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The biggest jump -- about 76 percent -- was in the suicide rate for girls ages 10-14 from 2003 to 2004. There were 94 suicides in that age group in 2004, compared to 56 in 2003. That's a rate of fewer than one per 100,000 population.
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The study also documented a change in suicide method. In 1990, guns accounted for more than half of all suicides among young females. By 2004, though, death by hanging and suffocation became the most common suicide method. It accounted for about 71 percent of all suicides in girls aged 10-14, 49 percent among those aged 15-19 and 34 percent between 20-24.

"While we can't say (hanging) is a trend yet, we are confident that's an unusually high number in 2004," said Dr. Keri Lubell, a CDC behavioral scientist who was one of the lead authors of study.
I always thought common wisdom was that more females attempt suicide than males but males are usually more successful because they opt for firearms whereas females were more likely to use pills and razor blades.

Shows what common wisdom knows Smiley: mad

Oh, also girls are becoming increasingly emo and shit. I can't advocate adults trying to get into some 14 year old's pants but if any 14 year old boys are reading this, this is your window of opportunity to get some emotionally needy pussy.
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#2 Sep 06 2007 at 12:39 PM Rating: Excellent
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Oh, also girls are becoming increasingly emo and ****. I can't advocate adults trying to get into some 14 year old's pants but if any 14 year old boys are reading this, this is your window of opportunity to get some emotionally needy *****.


That's probably what the girls are all emo about, actually.
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Lack of adults trying to get into their pants?
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#4 Sep 06 2007 at 12:45 PM Rating: Excellent
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....Yes.

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Crazy chicks. Who can understand them?
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#6 Sep 06 2007 at 12:57 PM Rating: Excellent
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Crazy chicks. Who can understand them?


Well, when they're at the end of their rope, probably no one.
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I always thought common wisdom was that more females attempt suicide than males but males are usually more successful because they opt for firearms whereas females were more likely to use pills and razor blades.

Shows what common wisdom knows


Did the study show data on failed attempts? If not, you've just had a Gbaji Momentâ„¢. Yes, when you read something and then draw completely unrelated conclusions and sum up with broad generalizations, it's GbajiTimeâ„¢.


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Did the study show data on failed attempts?
No clue. As I said, I was just reaching into my cobwebby brain cellar to fish around for sorta-remembered factoids.
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You mean registered trademarks not copyright. And it should eventually be a ® intsead of a ™.


You misspelled instead. Idiot.

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You mean registered trademarks not copyright. And it should eventually be a ® intsead of a ™.


You misspelled instead. Idiot.



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#12 Sep 06 2007 at 1:48 PM Rating: Default
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So is it that girls are attempting suicide with rope *instead* (spelled correctly) of guns? Or that they're putting away the pills and pulling out the rope?...
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#13 Sep 06 2007 at 2:24 PM Rating: Decent
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Can't kids do anything right these days? You need to, in order, take a bottle of pills, slash your wrists, hang yourself and then shoot yourself in the head.

There's usually enough swinging-and-kicking time to get that shot off.
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If possible, shoot yourself with an incendiary round to ignite the gasoline you doused yourself with.

Edited, Sep 6th 2007 5:29pm by Jophiel
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I guess the old "Go play in the Freeway" statement my Pops used to make back in the day isn't universally accepted either.
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Can't kids do anything right these days? You need to, in order, take a bottle of pills, slash your wrists, hang yourself and then shoot yourself in the head.

There's usually enough swinging-and-kicking time to get that shot off.


Also known as the Rasputin method. Don't forget to shoot yourself in front of a window overlooking a body of water.
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#17 Sep 06 2007 at 2:33 PM Rating: Good
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Can't kids do anything right these days? You need to, in order, take a bottle of pills, slash your wrists, hang yourself and then shoot yourself in the head.

There's usually enough swinging-and-kicking time to get that shot off.


Also known as the Rasputin method. Don't forget to shoot yourself in front of a window overlooking a body of water.


Infested with starving lazor-equipped sharks.

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#18 Sep 06 2007 at 4:16 PM Rating: Good
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Can someone throw in a "Bungee Rope" joke please?

I can't be ****** but it would lift the tone of this thread.
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#19 Sep 06 2007 at 5:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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I always thought common wisdom was that more females attempt suicide than males but males are usually more successful because they opt for firearms whereas females were more likely to use pills and razor blades.

Shows what common wisdom knows
Nope, as far as what current research shows, that's pretty much the trend.

CDC, using data from the NCIPC wrote:
Suicide affects all youth, but some groups are at higher risk than others. Boys are more likely than girls to die from suicide. Of the reported suicides in the 10 to 24 age group, 82% of the deaths were males and 18% were females. Girls, however, are more likely to report attempting suicide than boys.
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CDC's Suicide Fact Sheet wrote:
• Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate
of females and represent 78.8% of all U.S. suicides
(CDC 2005).
• During their lifetime, women attempt suicide about
two to three times as often as men (Krug et al. 2002).

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Paradoxically, in most Western countries, where females tend to have higher rates of suicidal ideation
and behavior, their mortality from suicide is typically lower than male mortality.
No satisfactory theory has explained this enigma, although various hypotheses have been put forward.


You get the picture. I have to wonder if this doesn't speak to the shifting of tradional gender identities, teen girls taking on traditionally male or androgenous traits, or whether it even has to do with gender identity disorder or the reported boom in bipolar diagnoses.

Eeenteresting.

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This quote brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department:

CDC's Suicide Fact Sheet wrote:
• Males take their own lives at nearly four times the rate of females and represent 78.8% of all U.S. suicides (CDC 2005).
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#21 Sep 06 2007 at 6:46 PM Rating: Decent
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Jophiel wrote:
If possible, shoot yourself with an incendiary round to ignite the gasoline you doused yourself with.

Like...a flare gun?

You just made Anthony Michael Hall cry!
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Debalic wrote:
Can't kids do anything right these days? You need to, in order, take a bottle of pills, slash your wrists, hang yourself and then shoot yourself in the head.

There's usually enough swinging-and-kicking time to get that shot off.

Also known as the Rasputin method. Don't forget to shoot yourself in front of a window overlooking a body of water.

The Rasputin Method? I call it...


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#23 Sep 06 2007 at 10:06 PM Rating: Decent
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Those numbers are alot lower than I would have expected/ thought.





But I also never pictured a 10 year old girl committing suicide. Smiley: frown
#24 Sep 06 2007 at 10:51 PM Rating: Default
Edited for drunken stupidity (not mine).

Edited, Sep 7th 2007 3:22am by Dreadkin
#25 Sep 06 2007 at 11:42 PM Rating: Decent
So when are they going to start making legislation against rope? I see guns still being legislated against as the issue is far from hanging on its last thread.


This I don't want to miss.
#26 Sep 07 2007 at 2:33 AM Rating: Good
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So when are they going to start making legislation against rope? I see guns still being legislated against as the issue is far from hanging on its last thread.


That's such a ropey argument Smiley: oyvey

Though I guess it strikes a chord with pro-gun people.

Ah well, you hang on to what you can!

Still, no need to get your knickers in a knot.

And this legislation on guns is all noose to me.

Hmm...

Nope, that's it, that's all I got, and it wasn't much, I apologise.
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