From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Jul 11 1998 - 05:16:23 MDT
At 05:41 AM 7/10/98 -0700, mark wrote:
>P.S. And if Europe's so great, why is it that suicide rates are typically
>at least twice as high as America?
How reliable are these comparative figures? It strikes me as likely that a
religiose culture like [large portions of] the USA (or Iran) might well
record deflated figures for suicide on the grounds of familial shame, etc.
Europeans are often more candid.
Damien Broderick
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