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Unsurprising- >The US farmer suicide crisis echoes a much larger farmer suicide crisis happening globally: an Australian farmer dies by suicide every four days

• Retric 7y ago
  I get what your saying, but ~630 people per day commit suicide in India. That's ~50 million people since 1995. In other words Indian farmers are not unusual likely to commit suicide, it's just a sick talking point.
  • true_religion 7y ago
    Alternatively, the suicide rate is pointing to systemic issues present in society, and while other counties may be okay with ignoring these issues as part of a “personal responsibility”, it’s not something to be generally approved of. The OP is Indian, can we not agree that the OP does not think this is an acceptable suicide rate regardless of how comparable it is to the general rate or the rate in other countries?
  • NotSammyHagar 7y ago
    That works out to ~5 million, not 50m. Still horrible to think about. 5.518 million people killed themselves? 63036524
    • Retric 7y ago
      Ops, had 5.5 million figured that was false precision, and somehow edited it to 50 :(