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Newsweek · 21h

US Suicide Rate Remained Near Historic Highs in 2023

There were a little over 49,300 suicide deaths reported in the U.S. in 2023, according to preliminary data from the CDC.

Rate of U.S. suicide deaths rising again

"From 2002 to 2018, the total rate [of suicide deaths] increased 30%, from 10.9 deaths per 100,000 standard population to 14.2," wrote report co-authors Matthew Garnett and Sally Curtin, of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).

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Suicide rates increased from 2020 to 2022, with firearms as the leading means

The increased suicide rates follow a two-year decrease from 2018 to 2020, according to the National Center for Health Statistics report.

U.S. News & World Report on MSN · 1d

U.S. Suicide Rate Climbs Back to Highest in Decades

Final data from the CDC for 2022 shows the suicide rate matching the level in 2018, marking the highest in the U.S. since 1941.

Associated Press · 21h

U.S. suicides last year remained around highest level in the nation’s history

U.S. suicides last year remained at about the highest level in the nation's history, preliminary data suggests.

Deseret News on MSN · 1d

U.S. suicide deaths rose in 2022 after short decline

The CDC reports that males take their own lives at much higher rates than females, though deaths are down among boys.

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Veteran suicide prevention in Michigan gets $750,000 boost from federal grant

The announcement this week came during Suicide Awareness and Prevention Month and as Congress considered other measures to ...

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Suicide attempts increased among transgender teens when states passed anti-trans laws, study says

People in the United States who identify as transgender or nonbinary make up only a tiny fraction of the population, but they ...

1hOpinion

It’s not humane to make suicide easy

Sanitizing suicide doesn't make it better. Simplifying the worst human impulses only moves society in the wrong direction.

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Women are increasingly using firearms in suicide deaths, CDC data reveals

Suicide deaths have risen for more than two decades, reaching rates the U.S. has not seen since the Great Depression.

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Swiss police detain several people in connection with suspected death in a ‘suicide capsule’

Police in northern Switzerland say several people have been detained and a criminal case opened in connection with the ...

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Reported "suicide capsule" death of U.S. woman in Switzerland prompts multiple arrests, launch of criminal case

The "Sarco" capsule is designed to allow a person sitting inside to push a button that injects nitrogen gas into the sealed ...

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Several arrested after American woman dies in first use of controversial suicide pod

Swiss police have arrested several people after a controversial futuristic-looking capsule designed to allow its occupant to ...

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Several detained after American's 'suicide capsule' death in Switzerland: Police

Multiple people were detained and a criminal case has been opened in northern Switzerland after a person died by assisted ...

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American woman's death in suicide capsule leads to arrests in Switzerland

Criminal proceedings have been launched against “several people for incitement and aiding and abetting suicide,” police said.

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Mom shot dead while nursing one of her twins in horrific murder-suicide

Taquia ‘Kiki’ Nails, 32, was shot and killed on September 24 by her estranged boyfriend, 26-year-old Quindell Mercer, police ...

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