Please do not worry, this is not my issue, but when reading a study like this, I start to think that one of the leading reasons for male suicide is our male identity as providers and contributors. We define ourselves by our work or professions, before anything else. When our situation changes, including the loss of a spouse, the loss of a business, a job failure, or anything that we used to define us, then according to the article, suicide is up.
There are many reasons why men commit suicide. Suicide is the number one killer of men in the World now in epic proportions according to an article by Susanna Bennett, “Male Suicide: A Public Health Emergency”. According to Bennett, suicide is the leading cause of death for men in the United States and United Kingdom. This was based on a peer reviewed study of two decades and 78 studies including over 1695 people who participated.
Please do not worry, this is not my issue, but when reading a study like this, I start to think that one of the leading reasons for male suicide is our male identity as providers and contributors. We define ourselves by our work or professions, before anything else. When our situation changes, including the loss of a spouse, the loss of a business, a job failure, or anything that we used to define us, then according to the article, suicide is up.
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While the war in Israel against Hamas in Gaza may be losing its media appeal, especially in the wake of the upcoming US Presidential election, it is ongoing and life changing in Israel. Many of our reserve troops, over 350,000, of them called up, are beginning to return to their families and jobs after 90 days of continuous action in Gaza and in the North of Israel. Most have been told that they will return again in a few months, to rotate in and out of the fronts, until the war is reduced, and we begin to feel safe inside our tiny country.
Almost a quarter of a million Israelis are evacuated from their homes in the North and South of Israel and still living with family members and in hotels and guest houses. Because of the instability of the Northern Border with Hezbollah, the threat to communities in the North is larger than the threat from Gaza before October 7th, our people will not return home for some time. |
AuthorEric Guth, 4Z1UG / WA6IGR, is the host of the QSO Today Podcast, and an amateur radio operator since 1972. Eric has lived and worked in Israel since 2000. Archives
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