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jberryhill

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1. Suicide is a leading cause of death

Reply to Sarah Ibarruri (Original post)

Tue Mar 18, 2014, 10:41 AM

Mar 2014

Suicide is one of the top ten causes of death generally.

There are a gazillion people who work in the banking industry. In a lot of banking organizations, the title "vice president" is about as unusual as "associate" in a Wal-Mart, since they need signatory authority for a lot of common transactions.

So my question is: How does the recently commented-upon set of deaths compare to any other similar time period?

In other words, is this a trend in reporting or a trend in actual events?

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Imagine you're a highly competitive person rewarded with fat checks... then the fat checks stop [View all] Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 OP

Suicide is a leading cause of death jberryhill Mar 2014 #1

Agreed. I'm sure more soldiers and a higher percentage of soldiers committed suicide FSogol Mar 2014 #5

Among Veterans, the rate is 22 a day, nearly one an hour. Bluenorthwest Mar 2014 #15

Shameful. Also, completely undiscussed on DU because some tin foil heads would rather make up stuff. FSogol Mar 2014 #17

I mistook "check" for a totally different word, and was like snooper2 Mar 2014 #2

lol Stop that. I'm drinking coffee here. :) nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #6

They are having a tougher time stealing other people's money PowerToThePeople Mar 2014 #3

I'll save my sympathy . . . Brigid Mar 2014 #4

I'm with you there. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #7

I'm actually really upset about this. Lizzie Poppet Mar 2014 #8

Job-security is gone for bankers. Too much pressure to deliver. DetlefK Mar 2014 #9

I really read the title line of this post wrong the first time.... AngryAmish Mar 2014 #10

I voluntarily left a 6 figure career for a $8 per hour job. . pipoman Mar 2014 #11

Serious? Would you mind sharing what happened? nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #12

I blogged about it on DU2...there are like 5 annual updates on this thread pipoman Mar 2014 #13

That's wonderful! Thanks for linking me there. nt Sarah Ibarruri Mar 2014 #14

I guess 2011 was the last time I updated pipoman Mar 2014 #16

i don't know the lives of these specific people involved, but i'm thinking of some greedy types JI7 Mar 2014 #18