Male suicide on rise as result of austerity, report suggests

the-tominator · 2015-10-11T22:41:48+00:00

There's a strong link to economics, but it isn't because of economics. It's because (IMO) the future looks so bleak at the moment, and is getting worse.

Life has become a nasty over-competitive brawl where women turn against men, men turn against men, citizens turn on country, country turns on citizens, friends turn on friends, companies turn on customers, and the media turn against the civilizations that built them.

Part of the reason for that is economic pressure, but another is the breakdown of the relationship between men and women (as groups, not speaking about individual relationships). It's become an abusive relationship where man is just used by woman, where love and fairness are swept under the carpet as 'old-fashioned sexism'. The fact is, society has become anti-social, a free-for-all. People need healthy, respectful relationships, but the vast majority of women have no respect for men, and dismiss a healthy (mutually beneficial) relationship as sexist/abusive etc as they'd rather just have it all.

And there are many more, that I won't go into here because they're not relevant to MR.

What the authors attribute to austerity, has actually been going on since the late 60s. Men's suicide rate has been rising disproportionately every year since then, whether the government has been spending or saving has not changed the overall trend.

icefire54 · 2015-10-12T02:17:57+00:00

in women, suicide is more often as a result of divorce

That may be technically true, but men still overwhelmingly commit suicide after divorce.

autotldr · 2015-10-12T18:47:42+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 86%. (I'm a bot)

According to the research, every one per cent fall in growth rate of GDP in the Eurozone's periphery countries has seen a 0.9 per cent increase in suicide rates across all ages, which equates to over 6000 suicides in total over the period 2011-12.

Five years of belt tightening are predicted to have caused 4555 male suicides in the 65-89 age bracket between 2009 and 2014, suggesting medium- to long-lasting effects of fiscal austerity on suicides.

Women aged 25-44 have also committed suicide in higher numbers since austerity measures were first introduced, though not in such high numbers and while most men commit suicide as a reaction to unemployment, in women, suicide is more often as a result of divorce.

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Title	Male suicide on rise as result of austerity, report suggests
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Date	October 11, 2015 5:11 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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