Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by lapcat 1043 days ago
> He's right, include deaths of despair by overdoses and alcohol. It's way over the 'norm'.

> 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".