👏Suicides continue to fall in Canada👏 Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, there has been an ongoing decline (well past periods of pandemic) in suicide rates in Canada. Going to the end of 2023, we can see significant decreases. /1 - ThreadSky

tylerblack.bsky.social • 104 days ago

👏Suicides continue to fall in Canada👏

Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, there has been an ongoing decline (well past periods of pandemic) in suicide rates in Canada. Going to the end of 2023, we can see significant decreases.

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sailorgirl2017.bsky.social•96 days ago

📌

unitetheleft.bsky.social•95 days ago

I’m going to bump that that number up a little this winter

friendlyinafoxhole.bsky.social•96 days ago

Wish that applied to my friend who unexpectedly took his life in May 2024

tylerblack.bsky.social•104 days ago

In fact:

A) the 2023 Peak suicide rate in July is lower than any monthly suicide rate from 2015-2019

B) the suicide rates in December 2022 and 2023 are the lowest monthly suicide rates seen in 30+years in Canada (<8 per 100k per year)

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tylerblack.bsky.social•104 days ago

And no, MAID doesn't account for it, because we can separate suicides by age and gender, as well as MAID deaths by age and gender, and MAiD death changes do NOT map to suicide death changes.

emilyrj.bsky.social•104 days ago

These MAiD stats are so heartbreaking, disabled people deserve much better

tylerblack.bsky.social•104 days ago

its disabled people advocating for (and against) MAiD, tho

emilyrj.bsky.social•104 days ago

Disabled opponents outweigh proponents and proponents have consistently said the only reason they want MAiD is because of lack of supportive medical and social disability infrastructure and acknowledge MAiD is coercive eugenics, which reports on individual cases have shown too

shireenj.bsky.social•104 days ago

I was thinking the same thing. It’s tragic.

auriculaire.bsky.social•103 days ago

Why don't you show us the stats of MAiD suicides on the same graph, so that we can make our own minds? They are suicides after all, aren't they?

jaimetrick.bsky.social•104 days ago

This is great news. What are your thoughts on what accounts for this change?

danfarthing.bsky.social•96 days ago

This is impressive progress in the face of the cost of living / inflation challenges. Do you subscribe to any theories about what is driving the downward trend. I’m wondering if there are lesson for us in Scotland.

jamescwiley.bsky.social•93 days ago

To your point about declining quality of life, I wrote a brief commentary on Stengel's hypothesis that suicide rates decrease during times of societal suffering, like war or genocide. I argue this applies to the pandemic as well. You can read here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aj7bz

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