After completing the Reading for Unit 8, and engaging in your own independent research, please address the following:
1. Through either citing your Reading material, or an online U.S. Government source (please include the URL), discuss and analyze three sets of statistics that help you understand the change in the rate of suicide in the United States since 1950.
2. Given these statistics, what is one important prediction that you would make about the suicide rate over the next 20 or 30 years? For example, is it going to increase, and if so, for which groups, and why?