Women, young adults more likely to ponder suicide

Women, young adults more likely to ponder suicide | Reuters:

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A new federal survey estimates that more than 8 million adults in the United States had considered suicide in a year's time and more than two million actually made plans to kill themselves.

Women, Caucasians and those under age 30 were more likely to have suicidal thoughts, according to the first-of-its-kind study released on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The study indicates a wide variation in suicidal behavior by state. One in 15 adults in Utah had serious thoughts of suicide, the highest in the nation. That compared to Georgia, the lowest, with 1 in 50 adults saying they had seriously considered killing themselves.