Monday, September 24, 2012

Why is the second leading cause of death/behind accidents/for ages 25-34 suicide, and then homicide after that


Why is the second leading cause of death/behind accidents/for ages 25-34 suicide, and then homicide after that?
25 TO 34 YEARS All causes 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,952 106.3 Accidents (unintentional injuries) . . . . . 14,954 37.0 Intentional self-harm (suicide) . . . . . . . 4,985 12.3 Assault (homicide) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,725 11.7 Malignant neoplasms . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,656 9.0 Diseases of heart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,307 8.2 Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,182 2.9 Diabetes mellitus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673 1.7 Cerebrovascular diseases . . . . . . . . . 527 1.3 Congenital malformations, deformations, and chromosomal abnormalities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 437 1.1 Influenza and pneumonia . . . . . . . . . . 335 0.8 Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,536 111.4 Accidents (unintentional injuries) . . . . . 13,708 105.1 Septicemia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,745 82.4 please note ages 15-24 it goes accidents/homicide/ then suicide... all the other groups have to do with cancer and heart disease mostly no homicide and suicide... why is that....? please note suicide is only 1/3 of 1% of that age population. deaths in general are about 1% in that age population.
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Like you said, death is uncommon in that population. Illness is even less common. As a population ages, terminal illnesses become more common, and move up in rank on the causes of death list. Accidents become slightly more common, but the increase isn't as much as increases in heart disease, cancer, etc.






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