Suicidal Russia

[Nottingham]

Suicidal Russia
09/04/2003 17:45
The number of suicides in Russia tripled since the 1960s

If someone officially announced about 20 years ago that Russia would take one of the leading positions in the world on the number of suicides, nobody would believe that person. Suicides did not match the country filled with socialistic optimism. The number of mentally unstable Russians grows every year. Sometimes, people bid farewell to their lives because they do not want to live in this country. The statistics is quite frightening: about 60,000 Russian people committed suicide last year. This number equals the population of a small town.

This situation can be observed not only in Russia, but on the entire post-Soviet territory. Sixty thousand suicides exceed the critical level determined by the World Health Organization. The research conducted by the Russian Center for Social and Judicial Psychiatry shows, there is a certain suicidal differentiation, based on sexual, ethnic and social indications. For example, men commit suicides six times as much as women do. Males of 45-54 years of age commit suicides more frequently than males of another age group. Suicides mainly take place because of alcoholism and depression.

Teenagers of 15-19 years old form another large group of people on the number of suicides - 212 people on 100,000. Russia's Sverdlovsk region is the leading territory in this respect. Losing 2,500 teenagers every year because of suicides, Russia ranks first on the sad list. The second place is taken by the USA: 1,800 teenagers kill themselves every year. Russia ranks third in the world on the number of teenage suicides per capita, following Sri Lanka and Kazakhstan.

The research conducted by the mentioned center showed, mental disorders were not the main reason for committing suicides among Russian people. Social factors are not predominant either. In addition, experts point out the growing trend of suicides committed by the people of a higher social status. More than 50 percent of self-murderers make their decision in a state of temporary insanity, especially if it goes about terminally ill people, when no one and nothing can help them.


more...

http://english.pravda.ru/main/18/87/347/10835_suicide.html

Interesting report! US is second in the World with teenage suicides
Its obvious being a Super Powers has some fringe benefits!

[alcuno]

1. I've been to Russia and can those people ever drink.

I remember sitting in a bar with a couple of guys and playing some card game I didn't understand. They really like to drink tomato juice and do vodka shots; I've never had so much vodka in my life.

Combine that with their love for literature which tends to be somewhat melancholy and depressing.

[Flying_Pig]

2. This is what happens in a society that...

has lost all hope, or has felt hopeless, and helpless, for a very long time. I wish our nation was stronger (in a moral sense) so that we could shed some warming light on our fellow human beings in Russia. Perhaps we can become that light again someday, and be what we were designed to be: A fully functioning, democratic, and fair, Republican Democracy, and an example, and friend, and partner to the world.

This is what Bush appears to be striving for, to make us more like Russia, with his quest to rip the heart out of our nation. Bush wins in 04', and our suicide rate here will surpass Russia quickly. Another 4 years of Bush, and we will not have a country you will be able to recognize. We can't let that happen here.

One of the things that angers me the most about Bush, is what he's done to destroy the soul, and reputation of this nation. We have lost our smile. I've been around for over 50 years, and I cannot remember this nation being more unhappy than it is now. They are strangling this country, and the life-blood flows from the patient.

This calls for passion, truth, commitment, and dedication on our part. With those, they stand not a chance. They will wilt before our power, a power derived from the good heart of this nation. Then, we must take steps to insure this---never--....--ever--....--happens -again.

[goforit]

3. What is the suicide rate with top people under both Bush admin.???

Does anyone know?

Is anyone keeping a record???

Can we trust the numbers the gov't puts out?

Especially under these thugs?