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Look at the latest international statistics on suicide, and you’ll find that twelve times as many people on average kill themselves each year in East Germany than in Greece. Why? You might suppose that on the whole Greece is a pleasanter country to live in, and that the climate is better. That might be so, but how, then, do you account for the fact that the suicide rate in Northern Ireland is five times lower than it is in Switzerland?
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Williams, M. (1986). Suicide. In: Society Today. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08845-4_43
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