5 Most Suicidal States in America

3. Alaska

Suicide Mortality Rate in 2021: 30.8

As reported by USAToday, 17 soldiers died by suicide in Alaska in 2021, including 8 over months late in the year, when winter descended, daylight shortened and despair deepened. This led the military to introduce mandatory annual counseling sessions for its 11,500 soldiers in the state. The relatively high cost of living, alcohol abuse, sleeping disorders and long, dark winters in the Land of the Midnight Sun also contribute to mental health struggles. Deaths by suicide in Alaska amounted to 220 in 2021.