Wyoming’s effort to curb its skyrocketing suicide rate

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Wyoming has the highest suicide rate in the nation. ABC News’ Trevor Ault travels to the state to find out why and how the new 988 mental health crisis line might change that.

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  1. Is there anyone in the chat that thinks suicide is ok??

    Like – if a person is suffering and in pain… why shouldn’t they have the choice to opt out??

    Nobody should be made to suffer or feel unwanted.

    If it gives them peace – I implore them have it!

    Yes, it’s a sad topic, but nobody wants to be in pain or feel unwanted.

    Not surprisingly, this is overwhelmingly men.

    Nobody seems to care until after we’re gone….And sometimes, not even then 😢

  2. I can see why people kill themselves a lot there. Those people are the most evil people I've ever met in Lander WY. They have no power to protect themselves and the cops up there are the criminals

  3. I was very very suicidal from 20 to 24. I came so close. God helped me. Want to know how to stop suicide? Care,tell the truth, stop lying, stop using, stop bareing false witness against people, be a friend, stop making work a hostile environment.

  4. It always bothers me when I hear people use the phrase "selfish coward" to describe a person who committed suicide. It's as if these people consider themselves better or superior to the person who killed himself/herself. There is an old belief that only crazy people kill themselves, which isn't true; you can be in your right mind and still kill yourself. The "John Wayne/cowboy" mindset is still around, and it's going to take time and patience to lessen its influence in places like Wyoming and Texas. 🤔

  5. I swear it's because of the altitude and the different minerals in the soil. Seriously it poisons people same with why coastal people are so weird.

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  7. I've been having suicidal thoughts since I was very young because I have an abusive dad, and it's imprinted such a tremendous scar on me. I've been seeking my happiness, and I know the answer to that. I don't ask much at all, however, to require those things are not easy. And I'm still chasing them tiredly with a ticking clock.

  8. The Wyoming Republican Party has an explanation for everything, including their deep opposition to integrity, classical conservatism, and their love of fabrication, innuendo, and conspiracy theories instead. I'm sure that kind of thing doesn't mess with anyone's head in an aging, deep-red state, so no doubt they can explain this outcome away, too.

  9. Nobody should interfere in the suicide terms. People should have the right to die with dignity. Someone decides to commit suicide? Don't interfere, maybe there are reasons beyond solvence. At least they die within the Wyoming area, which is nice and natural.

  10. This is just propaganda to support a gun grab. As demographics shift in America, and with an anti-white agenda white men are increasingly being hated. Have no doubt: this report is not about the welfare of white men at all.

  11. "here in Casper Wyoming's second largest city police respond to suicide calls twice as often as they do for shoplifting." @ 3:43min.

    That's gotta be the saddest statistic I ever heard anywhere. Just imagine discussions around the police stations as they ready themselves to go on incoming calls.

  12. This is the reason why people need to stop bringing children in this pathetic world. This world is filled with greed and self centered human beings. Stop making babies.

  13. Universal basic income is one way to help everyday people, those in need, or jail bound. Life is a tourmentation for money. If you have money it won’t torture you too bad, without it you as they say bite the dust. Sad nation, has gross over production and the profits are hidden and tax loopholes and never given out to everyday people. Our gdp grows but our debt keeps sky rocketing? Someone’s hiding our gains and not properly distributing them amung us. We elect imposters fr fr.

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