{"id":1648,"date":"2008-02-19T06:27:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T06:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2008-02-20T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T03:29:09","slug":"noted_without_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1648","title":{"rendered":"Noted Without Comment (Comment to Follow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/19\/us\/19suicide.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ei=5090&#038;en=d8491821f287e5d0&#038;ex=1361077200&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\" target=\"browser\">the NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8216;<b>Midlife Suicide Rises, Puzzling Researchers<\/b>&#8216;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><i>Mr. Neal is part of an unusually large increase in suicides among middle-aged Americans in recent years. Just why thousands of men and women have crossed the line between enduring life\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s burdens and surrendering to them is a painful question for their loved ones. But for officials, it is a surprising and baffling public health mystery.<\/p>\n<p>\nA new five-year analysis of the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s death rates recently released by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that the suicide rate among 45-to-54-year-olds increased nearly 20 percent from 1999 to 2004, the latest year studied, far outpacing changes in nearly every other age group. (All figures are adjusted for population.) <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>OK, one comment. <b>If only they approached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/009741.php\" target=\"browser\">other<\/a> complex <a href=\"http:\/\/www.windsofchange.net\/archives\/the_media_does_it_again.php\" target=\"browser\">statistical questions<\/a> with the same delicacy.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times notes a spike in suicide rates. In <i>boomers<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}