China's suicide rate 'among highest in world'

[Jokerman]

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-09-china-suicide-highest-world.html

A person tries to kill themselves in China every two minutes, the government and state media said Thursday, giving the country one of the highest suicide rates in the world.

China's suicide rate is 22.23 people out of every 100,000, the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said on its website. "Our nation has one of the highest rates of suicide in the world," the Beijing Youth Daily quoted Beijing Health Bureau spokesman Mao Yu as saying.

About 287,000 people kill themselves in the country of 1.3 billion every year, while about two million try to commit suicide annually.

China marks World Suicide Prevention Day on Saturday, according to the Beijing Youth Daily. The disease control centre said suicide is the biggest killer among Chinese aged 15 to 34.

Extreme pressure to perform well at school and to find employment were the main reasons behind the high rate of suicide among China's youths, media said.

The suicide rate in rural areas is three times higher than in urban centres and accounts for 75 percent of China's suicide total, it said.

(What a life)

 

[masta247]

"Among"? I thought it's the highest there. I was surprised to see that it's "the biggest killer among Chinese aged 15 to 34" - do they mean it in the context that it's what kills the most people compared to other factors like illnesses and accidents, or that suicides are the most popular within that age bracket compared to other age groups? The translation might be wrong, because if more people commited suicides than die from anything else.. that's almost hard to believe.

 

[Chronic]

287,000 people is 2-3% of the population of the country I live in. Horrible figures.

 

[Jokerman]

do they mean it in the context that it's what kills the most people compared to other factors like illnesses and accidents..

Yes, they mean that for that age group it's the single leading cause of death. Hell, suicide is the second single leading cause in the US for that age group. It's overtaken homicide thanks to the war veterans.

 

[masta247]

I Googled that. I have to say that I didn't realize this. Well, while from a moral point of view that's terrible, sad reality is that for China it's not bad at all, since for the government it means getting rid of those "less useful" in an already overcrowded country. Realistically speaking - it's not in their best interest to stop it, unless it doesn't go out of control.

 

[S O F I]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/ai-weiwei-on-beijing-s-nightmare-city.html

Everyone by now should know Ai Weiwei. Read what he wrote about Beijing. I imagine that's how all of China is, more or less. It seems most people are outright miserable.

 

[S O F I]

you can tell Masta was born in a communist country LOL

 

[vg4030]

I bet 99% of the suicides are directly from the Apple factory

 

[vg4030]

I Googled that. I have to say that I didn't realize this. Well, while from a moral point of view that's terrible, sad reality is that for China it's not bad at all, since for the government it means getting rid of those "less useful" in an already overcrowded country. Realistically speaking - it's not in their best interest to stop it, unless it doesn't go out of control.

lol. You sound like the tobacco companies who did a 'study' to prove that dying early actually saves the country money

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Finance_Balance_of_Smoking_in_the_Czech_Republic

Well it was in the Czech Republic

 

[I like to bore people]

They probably died due to the madness of their society, but it's also worth noting that the West and the Far East have different views on suicide.