Tangri
11th April 2016, 18:45
A remote indigenous town in Canada has declared a state of emergency amid a suicide epidemic that saw 11 young people try and take their lives in a single night.
Council leaders in Attawapiskat First Nation, a town of just 2,000 people on remote James Bay, say they have been 'overwhelmed' with the number of suicide attempts in recent months.
Since September last year 101 people aged from 11 to 71 have attempted suicide with only four health workers, none of whom have mental health training, left to deal with the fall-out.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/attawapiskat-suicide-first-nations-emergency-1.3528747
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), suicide in 2004 was the 8th leading cause of potential years of life lost worldwide among persons aged 15-44 years.[10] Suicide is the third leading cause of death among those aged 15-44 years, and the second leading cause of death in the 10-24 years age group in some countries; these figures do not include suicide attempts which may be up to 20 times more frequent than completed suicide.
It is said that most suicidal people are undecided about living or dying, meaning that one state doesn't appear to have any significant advantage over the other. Suicide can seem to be the only way out of problems, the ultimate solution and what is suicide but an exit? Individual suicides preceded by such thoughts are fairly common events that affect all socio-economic groups, but mass suicides are typically thought of as rare and affecting only brainwashed dupes belonging to strange cults. In fact, mass suicides are much more common than most would expect, and when the scope and chronology are extended to encompass entire societies then the prevalence of mass suicides is nothing short of a pandemic of global proportions.
CULTURAL MASS SUICIDE
The basic requirement for a mass suicide would be three or more people killing themselves together with a common element or interest and all, or most, of the members going along with the suicide willingly at the same time. Mass suicide comes in multiple forms and it can be politically driven, by dictators for instance. It can be argued that, regardless of the motives behind World War II, the practical outcome of that horrific conflict was to nearly drive the German people to mass suicide / extinction and Russia was a close second. So, war is often another form of mass suicide, and one with millions of eager participants, thus making it the largest form expressed.
The Disease of Culture
Mass suicide can also be seen in the case of archaic cultures around the globe dying off by the thousands, just like the languages that go with them. These cultures have been suddenly exposed to radically foreign influences and the whole panoply of Americanized cultural expectations brought to them from Hollywood via TV, movies and radio. This quickly generates cultural perversions and self-destructive demands; instead of farming, fishing or handmade crafts they want movie star fame, fast food, gold-tone watches and big screen TVs. But whether it's a sudden death or a slow die off, it really only matters for the newspaper headlines because the end result is still a mass suicide.
Common elements of cultural suicide:
-Abrupt chronological shift in technology combined with...
-A tenuous but carefully balanced subsistence lifestyle.
Culture can be thought of as a pathogen and isolated peoples have low, or no, built-up immunity to the disease. Just like influenza against the North American natives, even one instance of contact is enough to infect indigenous cultures and wreak havoc because all the old myths and faith-based ideas of tradition are instantly thrown into confusion and disarray. The end result when disparate populations collide is, sadly, the same evolutionary story -- the specialists fail while the generalists succeed.
Council leaders in Attawapiskat First Nation, a town of just 2,000 people on remote James Bay, say they have been 'overwhelmed' with the number of suicide attempts in recent months.
Since September last year 101 people aged from 11 to 71 have attempted suicide with only four health workers, none of whom have mental health training, left to deal with the fall-out.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/attawapiskat-suicide-first-nations-emergency-1.3528747
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), suicide in 2004 was the 8th leading cause of potential years of life lost worldwide among persons aged 15-44 years.[10] Suicide is the third leading cause of death among those aged 15-44 years, and the second leading cause of death in the 10-24 years age group in some countries; these figures do not include suicide attempts which may be up to 20 times more frequent than completed suicide.
It is said that most suicidal people are undecided about living or dying, meaning that one state doesn't appear to have any significant advantage over the other. Suicide can seem to be the only way out of problems, the ultimate solution and what is suicide but an exit? Individual suicides preceded by such thoughts are fairly common events that affect all socio-economic groups, but mass suicides are typically thought of as rare and affecting only brainwashed dupes belonging to strange cults. In fact, mass suicides are much more common than most would expect, and when the scope and chronology are extended to encompass entire societies then the prevalence of mass suicides is nothing short of a pandemic of global proportions.
CULTURAL MASS SUICIDE
The basic requirement for a mass suicide would be three or more people killing themselves together with a common element or interest and all, or most, of the members going along with the suicide willingly at the same time. Mass suicide comes in multiple forms and it can be politically driven, by dictators for instance. It can be argued that, regardless of the motives behind World War II, the practical outcome of that horrific conflict was to nearly drive the German people to mass suicide / extinction and Russia was a close second. So, war is often another form of mass suicide, and one with millions of eager participants, thus making it the largest form expressed.
The Disease of Culture
Mass suicide can also be seen in the case of archaic cultures around the globe dying off by the thousands, just like the languages that go with them. These cultures have been suddenly exposed to radically foreign influences and the whole panoply of Americanized cultural expectations brought to them from Hollywood via TV, movies and radio. This quickly generates cultural perversions and self-destructive demands; instead of farming, fishing or handmade crafts they want movie star fame, fast food, gold-tone watches and big screen TVs. But whether it's a sudden death or a slow die off, it really only matters for the newspaper headlines because the end result is still a mass suicide.
Common elements of cultural suicide:
-Abrupt chronological shift in technology combined with...
-A tenuous but carefully balanced subsistence lifestyle.
Culture can be thought of as a pathogen and isolated peoples have low, or no, built-up immunity to the disease. Just like influenza against the North American natives, even one instance of contact is enough to infect indigenous cultures and wreak havoc because all the old myths and faith-based ideas of tradition are instantly thrown into confusion and disarray. The end result when disparate populations collide is, sadly, the same evolutionary story -- the specialists fail while the generalists succeed.