BELIEFS: 3RD LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AGES 10 TO 24

It’s documented. For those ages 10 to 24 in the United States, the 3rd leading cause of death is Suicide.

Should you reach age 25, Suicide becomes the 2nd leading cause of death and that cause remains 2nd till age 34.

So I wondered…what was the cause of Suicide? Clearly beliefs, interpretations, meaning-made, understanding, information: all the intangible stuff (between our ears) which drives all action.

Between 15 and 24 Suicide leads; cancer, heart disease and even pneumonia follows. AIDS shows up as 6th in cause of death for those ages 25 to 34 otherwise, it barely makes the “Top 10”.

Our information has become our most “infectious disease”…and there is worry about germs? Perhaps our very “worry,” and the worry we pass along, is the cause of death, not the germ itself?

Within those same age groups, Homicide ranks 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th. From ages 1 to 9 it ranks 3rd and 4th.

So I wondered, what is the cause of Homicide? Clearly beliefs, interpretations, meaning-made, understanding, information: all the intangible stuff (between our ears) which drives action is its cause.

When it comes to dying it is not something other than ourselves we should fear. It’s the information we circulate that can kill—daily.

Some of us not “driven” to suicide, or homicide, may instead be part of the “walking-dead” from the same cause; beliefs, interpretations, meaning-made, understanding, information: all the intangible stuff (between our ears).

Information; we buy it and sell it daily. We are all in the information-business. We all communicate – circulate our beliefs, as well as our illnesses.

So I wonder, is what’s being communicated constructive, or destructive, life-affirming or does it kill?

I welcome your comments (your beliefs)…