Damien Broderick wrote:
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> At 05:41 AM 7/10/98 -0700, mark wrote:
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> >P.S. And if Europe's so great, why is it that suicide rates are typically
> >at least twice as high as America?
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> 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.
>
In particular, in the US cars are universally available. We tend to have
a great many fatal one-car accidents with only the driver in the car. There
have been several studies of this phenomenon duringhte last decade.