A study of suicide rates across different countries and US states (PDF) concludes:
[T]he happiest places have the highest suicide rates. . . . [P]eople may find it particularly painful to be unhappy in a happy place, so that the decision to commit suicide is influenced by relative comparisons.I found the study from this blog post, where the first comment says:
My new mission: Prevent suicides by making the world a more miserable place.
1 comments:
If this is true, they must do a really good job of covering up all the deaths at Disney World.
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