Interestingly, at the height of the lockdown during the Spring of 2020, researchers found an “overall decrease in suicides rates compared to the previous three years,” the study notes.
Similar numbers are consistent with Black high-school-aged youth, as “a higher percentage of Black youth have attempted suicide in the past year.”īut that Suicide Prevention Resource Center data has been upended by the pandemic, which has sent them shooting through the roof.Ī recent study analyzed a group of Maryland residents during the first six months of 2020.
In fact, “the percentage of past-year suicide attempts was higher in Black adult populations,” the Suicide Prevention Resource Center said. When it comes to suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts, however, the rates for Black people are commensurately higher than the previous categories. population is approximately double that of Black populations for both males and females,” the Suicide Prevention Resource Center found. Overall, “the suicide death rate for men is more than four times the rate for women in Black populations” and the “suicide death rate for the overall U.S. population, where suicide rates peak in midlife,” according to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center data.īlack males have more than double the suicide rate of Black females, but each group’s rate is significantly lower than that of their white counterparts. This is a different pattern than is seen in the overall U.S. “Among Black populations, suicide rates peak during adolescence and young adulthood, then decline. When looking at the data according to age, Black people have the lowest suicide rates of all age groups, from childhood up through the mid-80s. That is compared to the overall rate of 13.2% per 100,000 people for everybody in the U.S. had a suicide rate of 7.4% per 100,000 people. Keep reading to find a list of notable Black people who have died by suicide.ĭata provided by the Suicide Prevention Resource Center show that from 2010 to 2019 - the most recent years statistics were available for - Black people in the U.S. Whether it’s due to mental illness, stress, feelings of hopelessness or any of the multiple other reasons why people commit suicide, it is something that affects folks from all walks of life. While overall statistics point to Black people typically having among the lowest suicide rates, data from recent years shows that the COVID-19 pandemic has helped to change those numbers for the worst. Here’s What You Can Do To Helpīlanks’ death draws attention to a rising trend of Black people taking their own lives. MORE: Suicide Rates Are Soaring For Black People. All we need to do is remember him, honor him, celebrate him and pour our love into the family that made him happy.Īll we need to know is that, oftentimes, the people in the most pain are the giants in our lives. Someone like him wouldn’t do this.”īut the fact is we will never truly know why. People will ask, “How did we not see it?”Īnd people will say, “This wasn’t him. “On the morning of May 3, 2023, my father, Lance Blanks, took his life,” Blanks Reed wrote before adding later: Lance Blanks gets ready to announce a game on May 17, 2021, in Kigali, Rwanda.
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