Where you live matters in suicide

Suicide is a loss for everyone. The conjoined perpetrator and victim lose life, but we all lose the chance to save.

Souls leaving this earth by their own hands are in contrast to the natural order of things.

The timetable of conspiring forces of biology, chemistry or physics fails to apply to this individual. The deterioration of the body is a product of time and the elements. Suicide smashes that clock. The individual turns the hands forward. All will experience death, but suicide speeds up time and changes physics. Time slows as objects approach the speed of light. Suicide turns away from the light and speeds up time.

Some people think about dying by their own hand; others plan it, some move on to attempt it, and there are those who succeed. Suicide and its gradation of thinking, planning, attempting and completing have now been studied on a state-by-state basis.

Depending upon our address and how a limited number of people answered some questions, scientists are reporting our propensity to self-destroy. We are not all alike. Suicide is complex. It is individual, but it also appears to vary in groups. The survey divides by age, sex and now location. Education, racial groups and employment also alter risk.

If you want to reduce your personal risks, the latest study says you should be a college-educated, happy, Asian male, older than 18 and younger than 65, who has a job and lives in Georgia. The study published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention reveals the pathological version of the realtors’ “location, location, location." Your zip code influences your chances of suicide.

Some states have more ideation. Others have more attempts and still others have different ranking in the successful execution of suicide.

The Intermountain West has long been considered the more likely region of the nation for suicide. While it is easy to blame one single culprit that drives people to self-destruction, things are never like they seem. Some blame the availability of guns; the Southeast has more. Others blame social religious perfectionism; a personal faith is protective. There is concern in the LGBT community about public acceptance or the lack thereof as a catalyst for a heightened rate among their members. It is more complicated than just acceptance.