Suicide rates rising among baby-boomers

Its loneliness... increasing isolation in a world gone digital.

To be honest, the majority of baby-boomers make me sick to my stomach. I really can't stand them most of the time, so I don't have a lot of sympathy for them.

That being said, it's probably a mixture of a couple of factors that drive their suicide rates up. Nothing can really be conclusive until we see their living circumstances but, I'd guess it was the economic pinch, political corruption and a general distaste for Americans and where American society is going that drove up the rate, probably combined with the fact that their numbers are a hell of a lot bigger.

I bet that it is just a coincidence that it happened at the same time that doctors started handing out anti-depressants like they were candy! Especially to women. "oh, PMS? Here take prozac" "oh, cant sleep? Here, take some xanax" "oh, your husband and kids make you do all the work and it makes you unhappy? Here, take some...."

Meh, if you're weak enough to commit suicide then go ahead. The gene pool needs chlorine any way, it's high time something starts cancelling out liberals sterilizing day to day life for the dumbest of the dumb.

I'd like to see this study to determine how they arrived at their numbers. For example if they took into account the shear quantity of people in the baby boomer generation. That spike in the number of people will of course lead to a spike in the number of suicides.

Regardless of the statistics though, I think that one of the obvious causes for the increase in baby boomer suicides is the work habits of this particular demographic. From a research standpoint, baby boomers have a tendency to live their work and put all of their time, energy and focus on getting ahead instead of their quality of life (health and happiness). Now that they are coming on retirement, many of them are feeling the effects of the neglect to their bodies and are realizing that they do not have much to show for a lifetime of toil (we can partially thank our current economic meltdown for this). Rest assured, from where we sit today economically, we will surely see the suicide rate increase ten fold in baby boomers, as many of them will be forced out of retirement as they watch their life savings disappear.

It's a sad state of affairs and we have a few greedy people to thank for it.

Rob people of thier pensions, kick them out of thier homes because they have no money because there are no jobs raise prices for energy, food, and insurance beyond people's means so that they have no savings left and no hope for a good future, WTF do these idiots think is causing these suicides????? These idiots are in some kind of denial like I have never seen, suicides, depression, we may be in a recession WTF are these people just totally that dumb????? These Neo Con's need to be inprisoned for stupidity and denial and spreading thier BULLSHIT LIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think there are bigger things working than drinking water. For example, we know that major depressive disorders are higher in women and that people with mental disorders such as MDD make up around 90% of people who commit suicide. We also know that women attempt suicide 3 times as much in comparison to men, but men die more often because of the methods used (firearms and suffocation). This study mentions that while firearms use actually declined, female suicides by "hanging/suffocation rates increased... 2.3 percent."

Nonetheless, a precarious situation that requires attention from all medical professionals, not only mental health professionals.

If they were drinking floridated water you bet it could be a big cause....it was first fluoridated in the concentration camps in Germany to make the prisoners more docile and depress them into a resigned submission....it is a neurotoxin. It was then used on the German population after WWII, because they were pretty upset after losing the war and it was a way to calm dissent. When we brought all the german mind controll scientists to work for the US after the war, there were several experiments in Utah and other school districts after WWII using fluoridated water on segments of school kids. They switched the results and made it look pretty great....when in actuality it caused real problems with bones, decay, and as a neurotoxin it had pretty bad effects. But hey, the mining industry had an expensive and HIGHLY TOXIC BY PRODUCT THAT WAS COSTING THEM A FORTUNE TO DISPOSE OF......WHEN BINGO A LIGHTBULB WENT OFF IN SOME GREEDY CAPITALIST BRAIN AND IT WAS ALL packaged and promoted TO SELL IT TO THE US PUBLIC IN WATER AND TOOTHPASTE.

Sadly all of this can be researched and found, and even the switched studies were revealed....but no one stopped dispensing with this highly dangerous neurotoxin....and it was continued to be promoted to the American Public. Today it is in most all municipal water and toothpaste....and even many bottled waters and some drinks.

So many toxic laden foods and medicines are used on women these days it would be hard to say if only one could be the cause. Combine intense hormonal changes with toxic water , food and medicines, and add survival issues and real concerns about the future of their children in this messed up world, and there is a hot bed of causes that would make sense for great depression to lead to suicide. So sad that this is happening. I really get it.

Maybe our new president Obama will appoint people who really care about public health instead of appointees from big Pharma, big Chemical. Big Agro-chemical: and appoint people whom would really serve as protectors for our families health, safety, and well being.

maybe it's the water