Karen Endres knows that farming involves stress unlike other occupations. Its main variables — weather, livestock, crops, sales — are largely beyond control. And if that business isn't going well, who do families talk to?
Suicide is now the state's 10th leading cause of death. Over the last three years combined, suicide rates were higher among rural residents than among urban residents. And overwhelmingly, the suicides were among men.Wisconsin Violent Deaths Reporting System
One farmer ended his life the day after receiving a change of address card in the mail from his wife, who'd recently left him. Another died a week after being"disgusted" over not being able to cut his own toenails, a result of new physical limitations. Yet another had just finished a phone call with a loan company. Another had a disappointing crop, the latest in a string of bad years. Still, others had blood alcohol content many, many times the legal limit.
"We're trying to really empower community members to not only recognize when somebody's in a crisis, or when somebody's struggling with thoughts of suicide but also to notice when somebody's really stressed or struggling," Frakes said.lost her husband to suicide in 2018 "They will always turn it around that it's their fault that they did something wrong — whether this stuff is totally out of their control, they will still find a way to say they did something wrong, that they should have been paying attention," Statz said."That's farming."
Kohlbeck noted that nearly 20% of the farmers who used a firearm in their suicides also had alcohol in their systems at the time of their death.
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