Suicide: Cost to the Nation
Every 17 minutes another life is lost to suicide.
Every day 86 Americans take their own life and over 1500 attempt suicide.
Suicide is now the eighth leading cause of death in Americans.
For every two victims of homicide in the U.S. there are three deaths from suicide.
There are now twice as many deaths due to suicide than due to HIV/AIDS.
Between 1952 and 1995, the incidence of suicide among adolescents and young adults nearly tripled.
In the month prior to their suicide, 75% of elderly persons had visited a physician.
Over half of all suicides occur in adult men, aged 25-65.
Many who make suicide attempts never seek professional care immediately after the attempt.
Males are four times more likely to die from suicide than are females.
More teenagers and young adults die from suicide than from cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia and influenza, and chronic lung disease, combined.
Suicide takes the lives of more than 30,000 Americans every year.
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