According a Financial Post article by Sharon Kirkey, “suicide is 2.5 times more likely among the unemployed”, with debt being a risk factor to depression and suicide (Kirkey, Sharon, 2014). After the economic meltdown there was at least 10,000 additional “economic suicides” across Europe and North America. Countries such as Sweden prevented increased suicides with programs to get people back to work (Kirkey, 2014). Other factors that could lead to suicide among workers is gender norms. Many workers laid off were men, where the idea of a strong male who does not talk about their feelings as enforced by gender constructs, may have resulted in pent up depression with suicide s their only way of escaping. In North America, suicide is not promoted, yet it becomes an attractive out when we are no longer are able to meet the standards we have set out for ourselves in society. What the article demonstrates about death in North America is that despite peoples best efforts to help people away from suicide, death can be an escape. There is a need to feel in control in North America about our lives and death. Death in North America is unknown and often scary to us but when we become so fed up with life it becomes a
According a Financial Post article by Sharon Kirkey, “suicide is 2.5 times more likely among the unemployed”, with debt being a risk factor to depression and suicide (Kirkey, Sharon, 2014). After the economic meltdown there was at least 10,000 additional “economic suicides” across Europe and North America. Countries such as Sweden prevented increased suicides with programs to get people back to work (Kirkey, 2014). Other factors that could lead to suicide among workers is gender norms. Many workers laid off were men, where the idea of a strong male who does not talk about their feelings as enforced by gender constructs, may have resulted in pent up depression with suicide s their only way of escaping. In North America, suicide is not promoted, yet it becomes an attractive out when we are no longer are able to meet the standards we have set out for ourselves in society. What the article demonstrates about death in North America is that despite peoples best efforts to help people away from suicide, death can be an escape. There is a need to feel in control in North America about our lives and death. Death in North America is unknown and often scary to us but when we become so fed up with life it becomes a