suicide data (was: Re: Are guns extropian?)
Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Sat, 11 Jul 1998 11:16:23 +0000
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