{"id":37498,"date":"2013-09-09T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37498"},"modified":"2013-09-09T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T20:21:35","slug":"la-times-sgli-causes-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37498","title":{"rendered":"LA Times; SGLI causes suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill sends us a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-life-insurance-military-20130909,0,1842046.story\">LA Times<\/a> which speculates that Servicemembers&#8217; Group Life Insurance (SGLI) and the fact that it pays off in the event of suicide may be the reason suicides are so high in the military;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Army Spc. James Christian Paquette walked into the benefits office at Ft. Wainwright, Alaska, with a question: Did his military life insurance policy pay in cases of suicide? He was assured that it did.<\/p>\n<p>Less than two weeks later, he shot and killed himself \u2014 and his family collected $400,000.<\/p>\n<p>His widow struggles with the question of whether he would have proceeded with his plan if suicide had not been covered. &#8220;He just wanted to know we would be provided for,&#8221; Jami Calahan said. &#8220;It may have been a weight taken away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The role of life insurance has not been closely examined in the quest to understand why 352 active-duty service members took their own lives last year \u2014 more than double the number a decade earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, since most civilian life insurance policies also pay off (after a two year cooling-off period) for suicides, then the LA Times should look at the way it effects the suicide rate among civilians, too. The suicide rate among civilians of the same demographics as most military people is somewhat higher, too. What makes more sense to me is if there was someone in that &#8220;benefits office&#8221; (whatever that is) who could have alerted Paquette&#8217;s chain of command that he&#8217;d asked that question so they could keep an eye on him and warn his family. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill sends us a link to the LA Times which speculates that Servicemembers&#8217; Group Life Insurance &hellip; <a title=\"LA Times; SGLI causes suicide\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37498\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LA Times; SGLI causes suicide<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}