We're killing ourselves more often

42,773 people killed themselves in 2014; in 1999 the number of suicides was 29,199. So says a study by the National Center for Health Statistics. The 2014 number works out to a suicide rate to 13 per 100,000 people, the highest since 1986. It did not matter what group you looked at young, old, male, female with one exception - we old folk, the suicide rate for men and women over 75 declined.