MTis first, followed by AL and then WY. All the rates — for every 1000 residents — are close: 28.67, 26.7, and 26.66, respectively. Last year all were > 30. The WY call centers handled > 4000 calls. 90% of suicides involved guns, and of those who survived a suicide attempt, the vast majority didn’t make a second attempt in the following 9 years. Read more>>>
Prepared by Madeleine Beck of WyFile
Could be that WY is now 3rd in the highest suicide rate