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Sat Mar 1 02:58:27 GMT 2008

One of my former colleagues who is still in full time clinical practice
stated he has seen several of the weirdest methods over the past few months
that he has ever encountered.  He reported a suicide by nail gun, one by
drinking Drano (which I have previously seen myself on one occasion before)
and asphyxiation with an old fire extinguisher.  All of these happened in
the same jurisdiction over the space of about a month.  I am not sure how
the overall rate has changed if at all, but apparently the people in rural
Illinois may be getting more inventive in their ways of offing themselves.

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> Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:22:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: Jose Martinez <jommartz at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Suicide Blip
> To: "Trauma &amp, Critical Care mailing list" <trauma-list at trauma.org>
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> We haven't seen any increase in the suicide rates (in Costa Rica), just
> the methods have changed. Usually we get the intoxicated or self inflicted
> gun shot patients. But lately we have been getting some hangings. That is
> out of the normal!
>  Jose Martinez
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> "Bjorn, Pret" <pbjorn at emh.org> wrote:
>  Our trauma service has seen a disturbing increase in suicides and
> suicide attempts over the past couple of months. We're rural, so both
> the numerators and denominators are small; but hear me out: for January
> and February, we have six registered self-inflicted major traumas.
> That's half again as many for all of '07, and six times the total for
> Jan/Feb '06 and '07 combined. It's a blip; but it's a hell of a blip.
>
> Is anyone else seeing the same?
>
> Pret Bjorn, RN
> Bangor, ME USA
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