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On 2018-12-30 6:40 a.m., Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> On Saturday, December 29, 2018 at 5:31:54 PM UTC-5, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Saturday, December 29, 2018 at 5:40:48 AM UTC-10, graham wrote:
>>> On 2018-12-28 11:56 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
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>>>> Swedish folks like to prepare their salt cod by soaking it in lye for a couple of days. My understanding is that it turns fish into a jelly-like substance/material/mass. It then has to be soaked in water for a few days to neutralize the caustic and dangerous lye. They like to serve this during the holidays. Somehow, abusing fish in this manner is their idea of being "festive." It's no wonder they have such a high suicide rate.
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>>> The US rate is higher! Which food is responsible?

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>> That's a good question. My guess is that it's not food but the feelings of isolation and alienation brought on by our always connected society. My guess is that the young people in this country are feeling the squeeze of their diminishing quality of life and outlook for the future. The alarming rise in the suicide rate will probably be accompanied by a drop in the population growth rate in the US. Well, that's my feeling about it anyway.
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>> The picture ain't as rosy as the boomers paint it. They got the luxury of owning a home and being able to deny that the earth's climate is increasing in temperature at an alarming rate because mostly, it won't affect their self-indulgent asses. The young folks don't.

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> Suicide rates are highest among middle-aged men:
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> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States#Number_of_suicides_by _age_group_and_sex>
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> Your cohort.
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There are successful and unsuccessful attempts at suicide. While
suicide rates vary from one country or region to another, one of the
constants is that men are generally better than women at killing
themselves. Hence, more male than female suicides and more female than
male attempts.

There have been rash of suicides in nearby St.Catharines. There is a
nice new bridge that has become a favourite launching pad. Since it is
on a main artery to one section of the city and it spans a river valley
with a major highway, the suicides result in major traffic problems due
lengthy road closures for police investigations. That means that the
suicides end up in the news. Well meaning friends and sympathetic
members of the public put up little monuments to the people who killed
themselves. Then the troubles people city are drawn to it like a bunch
of lemmings.

People are demanding that there be barriers set up to try to prevent
people from jumping. It's a damned shame that we can't have a really
nice looking bridge without ruining the aesthetics of the design with
barriers. There was a bit of controversy when the city decided to remove
all the commemorations. They thought, quite rightly, that it was better
not to draw attention to the bridge. FWIW, the same city has a skyway
bridge over a canal that has been the demise of countless jumpers over
the years. It never became as controversial as this new bridge because
the suicides were not publicized. The authorities know that letting the
public know that a location has been the site of a successful suicide
will attract more of them.