This is just horrifying. But the headline in the actual article? Why are experts baffled? This is America 2020. That's WHY our kids are opting out.
In-part:
The rate of suicide among those aged to 24 increased nearly 60% between 2007 and 20,...
They see no future, literally.
Global warming, societal injustice, insane politic ignoring looming death, if I were thirty years younger I might seriously consider it myself, it is only knowing my family needs me, that keeps me going.
You see as a white guy in a society wanting to scape goat me with all the misbehaviors of my ancestors, or as POC treated as a second class citizen in my own country all the while living in a climate that gets more weird every year.
The glorification of ignorance and the deriding of intelligence, while demanding more and more technology, and no win political correctness.
Fuck just thinking about it all now is enough to have me reaching for the bottle.