# Are Suicides on the Rise?

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**Category:** The Quarantine Zone\
**Tags:** covid-quarantine\
**Created:** [March 17, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-suicides-on-the-rise/849684 "2020-03-17T22:24:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-suicides-on-the-rise/849684/1 "2020-03-17T22:24:18Z")

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I’m really concerned that people living paycheck to paycheck, who are suddenly without jobs because their workplaces are closed aren’t going to see any other way out.

I’m also concerned that a lot of the people stocking up on everything under the sun are going into debt to do so, and aren’t going to be working, so for a while are just going to be paying off the interest. What are they going to do if this isn’t just a month, or six weeks, but two or three months?

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**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-suicides-on-the-rise/849684/2 "2020-03-18T01:31:07Z")

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I’ve read how in the last few years there has been a rise in deaths of despair, especially among white people, not sure what the exact numbers are without googling.

There is talk of the government cutting a check to people for $1000, that probably would help people for a month anyway, if they still have a little income or savings, which most Americans don’t have much in savings.

I don’t know how much can really be done, I see a lot of homeless and mentally ill people who live horrible, horrible lives that don’t kill themselves, whatcha gonna do?