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JKpresents...suicide Ireland. Retrospective
Suicide statistics 2004
457 Registered deaths by suicide.
(356 males and 101 females)
Leinster 175 males and 44 females
Munster 120 males and 42 females
Connacht 32 males and 9 females
Ulster (part of) Cavan, Donegal & Monaghan 29 males and 6 females
There were more deaths by suicide than car accidents.
There is also a sense that some car accidents were in fact suicide.
There is also a sense that some drug overdoses were not accidental.
There were over 10,000 registered attempted suicides.
Reducing Suicide:
Reducing the suicide rate cannot be achieved without a change in awareness, attitude and commitment to the care of people with depression, alcohol and drug dependence and mental and emotional illness. Why should conditions such as these, which the World Health Organisation rank as causing a greater burden of morbidity globally than cancer or road traffic accidents, not receive similar and equally effective life saving measures. Suicide is not just for the statutory and health care agencies.
We all have to change... We all have to LISTEN...including: Bertie Ahern
A lesson in caring from the UK Government in the province of Ulster
NI suicide rise £3m for Prevention of suicide
NI suicide rise may be linked to economy
New research shows the rising number of suicides in Northern Ireland may be linked to current economic conditions.
There were 291 deaths last year, nearly double the average of earlier years.
Areas like north Belfast and Laurelvale, Co Armagh have seen abnormally high levels of suicide deaths.
The suicides are being blamed on deprivation, lack of opportunity and copying friends and relatives who took their own lives.
The Northern Ireland Department of Health also found those living in violence-racked areas were more prone to depression.
Northern Ireland Minister for Health Michael McGimpsey recently announced a new Mental Health and Learning Disability Board of experts to address the issue.
The latest paper to the Suicide Strategy Implementation Board, 'The Trouble with Suicide', found that during the transition to peace, people are more likely to report depression.
It found that conflict-related trauma can have long-term physical and mental consequences and suicide rates have been associated with immediate and longer-term consequences of conflict.
It also stated that the Troubles affected the way suicide was reported and recorded, and limited public recognition of suicide and self-harming as serious public issues.
£3m has been allocated for implementing the Suicide Prevention Strategy this year.
Well done! to the newly elected members of the devolved Government of the North of Ireland