According to the research, Canadian men and women had the 6th highest suicide rate from 2000 to 2019 out of the 33 countries examined in North, Central and South America.
The study, published in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas on Feb. 23, is the “first of its kind” to examine specific contextual factors associated with national suicide rates in the Americas.
North America has the highest rate of suicide with 14.1 per 100,000 people compared to the Andean Area in South America which has the lowest rate of suicide with 3.9 per 100,000 people.
Canadian society has become so divided and toxic that really what else could or would be expected?
5 replies on “Canada has 6th highest suicide rate among 33 countries in the Americas, ‘first of its kind’ study shows”
Perhaps Canada’s high suicide rate is due to the Indigenous males in the Far North of Canada who have one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Their high suicide rate has been blamed on the loss of their cultural ways–hunting and gathering–and thus the meaning in their lives.
I’m sure that contributes but overall I’d say Canada has become a mess of people who have a distorted sense of reality- I’d actually suggest social media/smart phones contribute a great deal to this widespread disconnect
Penny,
Those results are not surprising. After all we live in a country where suicide is official government policy.
http://www.domigood.com/2023/02/canada-moves-toward-assisted-suicide.html
I agree with you that this is exacerbated by low self esteem encouraged by the fantasies and bullying on social media. We have raised generations of weak willed people who refuse to cope with the gap between reality and expectations. It seems that nothing is so tragic as a bad hair day or a poorly thought out tattoo.
Hi Mark
And yes suicide is official policy. It looks like a money saving ploy. Rather than provide decent services health and housing with tax payer dollars the government will just offer you an end of life option. Presented as viable
But these stats aren’t up to date to that policy, nor do they take in the lock down abuse and the fall out from that.
Another thing I noticed in the article was the presentation of gender as an issue- without mentioning that suicide is largely a male dominated way of ending one’s own life- of course that’s not politically correct at this time- although it’s true.
“this is exacerbated by low self esteem encouraged by the fantasies and bullying on social media. We have raised generations of weak willed people who refuse to cope with the gap between reality and expectations”
unquestionably.
I find many adults are caught up in this “crowd mind’ think as well as young people by using their smart phones they gossip and generally attack unsuspecting person, aka bullying. It’s a bigger issue than we like to think about and the very medium (smart phones/social media) fosters an atmosphere of bullies and their bullying.
I’m reading this book, right now and taking notes
“The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind Paperback- Gustav Le Bon”
and it’s shedding light on the crowd mind toxicity
Considered in tandem with social media, constant connectivity via smart phones and the covid psyop and the crowd mind is destined to leave us worse off than we could imagine-
I’m finding the book very, very enlightening
I should add during the ‘pandemic’ there seemed to be many people LARP’ing their way through it as if it was some sort of play they were living through- people are very disconnected from reality because they should have noticed there were no dead people everywhere-
I know exactly zero people who died from covid- though I do know of people who got blood clots from the jab-one who died. The others permanently harmed.
Others who got shingles right after the jab. etc., etc
But no one I know died from Covid- Not one person!
Unimaginable if this was a real pandemic