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willowtooth
9th October 2015, 05:28
Muslims have the lowest suicide rates
The top 5 countries with the lowest suicide rates are all muslim countries, in fact 12 of the top 15 countries with the lowest suicide rates are muslim, the other three are small island countries
Why?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate
Os Cangaceiros
9th October 2015, 06:47
Organized religion frowns upon suicide, especially the major monotheistic religions.
Lobotomy
9th October 2015, 07:04
Makes sense. religion can offer people a sense of community and a feeling of "belonging" despite being a means of control
Antiochus
9th October 2015, 07:25
THere is no correlation between religiosity (as a proportion of the population) and suicide rates.
OGG
9th October 2015, 13:52
Possible under-reporting due to social stigma?
RedWorker
9th October 2015, 20:46
Not trans individuals. And not South Korea with its backwards social norms including extreme hierarchy and authority, where getting less than an A+ in two exams is grounds for killing yourself. Literally. A stark contrast of how massive wealth and technological progress can co-exist with all kinds of nonsense (which goes along with their ignorant traditional beliefs and anti-scientific bullshit that 4K TV's and lit-up corporate buildings haven't got rid of).
Anglo-Saxon Philistine
9th October 2015, 20:51
Possible under-reporting due to social stigma?
Most likely. This is the same fallacy that leads people to conclude the incidence of depression is much higher in the so-called Western world in the last few decades.
Also some of these places are in the middle of a civil war, which makes data collection all the more difficult.
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