Suicide Rate in Minnesota Remains Below Record Highs for Second Year

Suicide rate in Minnesota remains below record highs for second year

ST. PAUL — Deaths by suicide in Minnesota and across the country have been increasing over the past two decades. However, a new report from the Minnesota Department of Health indicates that for the second consecutive year, the number of suicides in the state has fallen below the peak levels reached in 2022. The rate of increase may be slowing down, said Stefan Gingerich, senior epidemiologist at the health department who specializes in suicide. …

Suicide rate levels off in 2024 • Minnesota Reformer

Minnesota’s suicide rate held steady between 2023 and 2024, according to preliminary data from the state Department of Health.  The 813 estimated suicides in the state last year work out to an age-adjusted rate of 13.9 per 100,000. Death statistics are typically reported in age-adjusted terms to account for how the age composition of a […]

Minnesota suicides remain stable for second year after 2022 peak

After trending upward for two decades, hitting a record high in 2022, suicide deaths in Minnesota have remained flat for the past two years, state health officials say. According to preliminary data, the number of Minnesota suicides in 2024 — 813 — was the same as in 2023, ending a 20-year upward trend. This marks two years of suicides below the state high set in 2022, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. Until 2023, “deaths by suici…

As Years in Prison Become Decades, Lifers’ Thoughts on Suicide Evolve

[This article describes deaths by suicide, including reference to a method of suicide.]   Asked if they ever think about suicide, prisoners sitting around a dayroom table at a medium-security facility in Georgia considered the answer fairly self-evident. “Mostly just when I hear of another one happening.” “I suppose everyone thinks about it.” All of us are serving life sentences. Someone joked that personally, their window in which to contemplat…