Bad news for our fathers and grandfathers… and those of us they leave behind. This could easily have been the path my dad took… increasingly socially isolated, and a gun nut.
Older White Male Suicide: Access to guns and a lack of social support make older white American men seven times more likely to kill themselves than black women of the same age, researchers said on Monday… it was not religion per se that acted on a person’s will to live — it was everything that goes along with religious involvement…
Rural Men More Likely to Commit Suicide: Some of the factors that might explain the higher suicide rate in rural areas may be the greater access to firearms, physical and social isolation, and the greater social disruption during the past three decades…