Suicide

Another number of the day. Among 200 million American older than 20 years, there was 28,497 suicides in 1998 ( source). To put that into (impossible) perspective - it is about 10 times more people than the number that died in 9/11 attacks. And this happens every single year. During 18 years the statistical database contains, it is about 500,000 people.

No, the numbers of suicides per year per 100,000 are not growing. In fact, the are slightly decreasing over time.