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Suicide is a personal choice, and is directly related to personal  happiness. 
The happiest guy in the world can get murdered as can the least  happy, so no 
relation to the original question. The US murder rate has plummeted  over the 
last years. Under Clinton, 8.1 per 100,000 and under Bush 5.6 per  100,000 
comparing the two. This is a drop of 31 percent. Does this mean as a  nation 
we 
are that much happier under the Bush administration? The murder rate  in 
France and all of Europe aside from Germany is skyrocketing. Violent crime in 
 
France has passed the US on a per capita basis. The violent crime rate is now 
 
higher in France than the United States and the same can be said for about 
half  
of Europe. 
 
Drew
 
 
In a message dated 11/6/2008 9:42:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
mmcharry AT gmail.com writes:

Except  for France, all of those countries are northern countries.
People tend to  kill themselves more when they get less than a given
amount of daylight.  Also, the US has a high incidence of violence and
murder. I'm wondering how  the suicide rates compare with the murder
rates? After all, whether you  drown yourself in the river or die as
the result of a knife fight at the  local brew shop, you're still  dead.

Marie


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