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by barrysteve
1044 days ago
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He's right, include deaths of despair by overdoses and alcohol. It's way over the 'norm'. 68k in 1995. 158k in 2018. Measuring a societies' success by the suicide rate has sent the wrong signal. Even the authority whispers disbelief in it's own populace into the headlines. |
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> 68k in 1995. 158k in 2018.
Yet it's still not high enough to explain "Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older" or to support the claim "those who are happy enough not to off themselves in one given way or another will scew the statistics".