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Originally Posted by Pierre
Boococks.
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I don't doubt it but we're looking at a very small age group here. Not the whole demographic.
There is something wrong here, and they can't just bury their heads in the sand and point at statistics
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We're not, But statistics are important. You cannot say this is a big, unexplained event, if it's on par with the normal rates of suicide.
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=1092
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The suicide rate in men aged 15 and over showed a downward trend during the 1990s until a sharp increase in 1998. Since this peak, the rate has again fallen, stabilizing in 2006. Rates in women were lower than those seen in men throughout 1991 to 2006, and have shown an overall decline. The rates seen in 2006 for both men and women were the lowest seen across the period at 17.4 and 5.3 per 100,000 population, respectively.
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17.4 men and 5.3 Women is per 100,000 is the 'normal' rate.
Population of Bridge-end: 132,600
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgend_(county_borough)
Of course, not that every death is not equally tragic or to minimize the deaths but this is not deserving of the media swarm it is getting, at least not in terms of a 'weird' occurrence or patten.