SUICIDE


never would've expected to see that, you'd think people in remote areas like midwest and alaska would live in peace, wonder what drives them over the edge

ACCIDENTS


HOMICIDE - charlotte area is one of the worst in homicide?


[Edited on February 24, 2010 at 10:11 AM. Reason : .]

2/24/2010 10:11:00 AM

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"never would've expected to see that, you'd think people in remote areas like midwest and alaska would live in peace, wonder what drives them over the edge"

"You ever tried farming not high? It's boring as shit!"

2/24/2010 10:14:55 AM

probably boredom and the lack of the quality psychiatric care that you find in metropolitan areas.


oh yeah, and meth

[Edited on February 24, 2010 at 10:17 AM. Reason : a]

2/24/2010 10:16:54 AM

a lot of those spaces are much much bigger than others. if they're not doing it by area (like comparing # of deaths per square mile or something), then it's not really comparable.

2/24/2010 10:22:18 AM

maybe a result of large companies dictating how long-held family farm land must be utilized? it seems like there has been an outpouring of documentaries/books dealing with the subject.

2/24/2010 10:23:04 AM

Ok its hard to buy the boredom argument, there are many bored people around teh world and they seem to be the ones at most peace, like tom hanks in that boring movie
but i can see how farm frustration can be a big problem
i heard that in india farmer suicide was a huge problems, i think it was one or two years ago when thousands of farmers committed suicide because of crop prices
and i was actually thinking more farming communities would be good for america

2/24/2010 10:27:58 AM

by the way from what i understand most farmers only work a few months out of a year, the rest of the time they're just chilling out having a good time, why would you not want that
even if you have a bad year as long as your house is paid for and you can grow your own food whats the big deal?

2/24/2010 10:29:22 AM

Farmers have no control over their life. Nature controls whether the crops grow. "The man" sets the prices you can charge. Add massive debt to pay for seeds, fertilizer, equipment every year and a complicated tax code that leaves them especially vulnerable to audits(Do YOU know how to calculate depreciation on 100 different pieces of equipment?) and you'd have to give them a pretty good reason NOT to drink pesticide(the preferred method).

Also it's a shitload of work in the summer, and fucking zero income in the winter.

[Edited on February 24, 2010 at 10:40 AM. Reason : Uncertainty and risk is exciting when you're young. It wears on you when you're older.]

2/24/2010 10:33:25 AM

^still doesnt make sense, it seems the worst thing that can happen is they lose their farm, as long as they dont put their house up as collateral they can still do what they normally do, which is sit around and drink
people lose their job, go bankrupt all the time, they dont usually kill themselves over it
oh well

2/24/2010 10:36:35 AM

You lose the farm, you've lost your livelihood, your family's only heirloom and inheritance. You ain't no man if you don't have land.

2/24/2010 10:38:33 AM

I can't speak for the midwest, but there really aren't that many actual farmers in Eastern NC. For every house in the country with a farmer in it there are 15 more with people who are just scraping by doing whatever they can. I suspect it's not the farmers who are offing themselves, but rather the people who don't own a business or have easy access to jobs.

2/24/2010 10:42:28 AM

^^

so killing yourself and leaving your wife without a husband and your kids without a father is the better option?

doesn't seem very "manly" to me

[Edited on February 24, 2010 at 10:43 AM. Reason : a]

2/24/2010 10:43:11 AM

many of the areas that appear to have high suicide rates seem to have lower homicide rates... maybe the farmer police just aren't as good at detecting staged suicides

[Edited on February 24, 2010 at 10:45 AM. Reason : or maybe they're the ones staging them ]

2/24/2010 10:44:31 AM

weather during the winter is miserable in the midwest, so im not suprised

2/24/2010 10:54:31 AM

the 'Accidents' and 'Suicides' are the same exact picture

2/24/2010 11:48:29 AM

2/24/2010 12:17:49 PM