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I'm wondering how this squares with the fact that Norway has the 13th highest suicide rate in the world (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.
by openasocket 10y ago
I'm wondering how this squares with the fact that Norway has the 13th highest suicide rate in the world (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/suiciderate.html). I know that suicide is often the product of mental illness rather than general unhappiness, but clearly Norway has a large number of people with some sort of depressive disorder, which I figured would lower them in terms of general unhappiness. In fact, most of the countries in the top 10 of this list have very high suicide rates...
EDIT: I'm an idiot, Norway actually has a rather low suicide rate, please disregard.
- elastic_church 10y agoPerhaps there is another perspective on killing yourself that isnt in the pejorative? Just a thought
- Someone1234 10y agoYou claim that they have the "13th highest suicide rate in the world." Do you have a source for that claim? The linked table only contains 26 countries out of 196 countries in the world; so you cannot conclude what you conclude based on that table alone. PS - What I find interesting about that table is, countries where it is socially acceptable to complain (and to "be sad") there is less suicide than in countries where the expectation is to be positive/happy all the time. Just kind of the inverse of what you'd expect, the UK having a low suicide rate is hilarious given how self-deprecating of a society we are.
- openasocket 10y agoWow, I feel really dumb right now. I didn't bother scrolling down on that page and didn't realize how short that list was! Looking at the wikipedia page it's clear that Norway has a much lower suicide rate in comparison to the rest of the world.