30 Years Since Hansen Testified

Suicide Now the 10'th Leading Cause of Death

According to the CDC Suicide rates have spiked and it is now the 10'th leading cause of death in America.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0607-suicide-prevention.html

According to Catholic League president Bill Donohue

If Anthony Bourdain had been a religious man, would he have killed himself? Probably not.

http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/2587414062.html   

Donohue goes on to claim with hugely erroneous logic

As I have recounted in my book, The Catholic Advantage: How Health, Happiness, and Heaven Await the Faithful, there is an inverse relationship between religiosity and suicide: those who are regular churchgoers have a much lower rate of suicide than atheists like Bourdain.

That is purely a correlation and hardly causation.   According to the Suicide Prevention Resource Center

The community is an important setting for suicide prevention. A wide variety of community groups and organizations, including schools, after-school programs, health care providers, workplaces, and places of worship, can all work together to carry out prevention activities that reflect local needs and resources.

Jesse Bering, Director of the Centre for Science Communication at the University of Otago, New Zealand, an experimental psychologist, and author of the Suicidal says

Not only is the tenor of Donohue’s sentiment completely tone-deaf and insensitive, his claim that Bourdain—or, for that matter, any other atheist suicide victim—could have been saved by religion is presumptuous and misleading.  

https://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/being-religious-will-not-save-you-from-suicide/?utm_source=eSkeptic&utm_campaign=f899f7b24b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_06_11_04_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8c0a740eb4-f899f7b24b-73446941&mc_cid=f899f7b24b&mc_eid=968a2f6f5e