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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

You're only partially correct, James.  The per capita suicide rate is only 
income related in the male gender.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> The numbers are small for the reason you cite, but the percentages are
> higher.  Not only that, most of the literature points out that suicide 
> occurs when
> someone's "realative" income falls, that is, his income compared to what 
> he
> used to make or his peers make.  To wit:
>
> "In  other words, suicide risk rises as relative income falls. "
> http://www.frbsf.org/publications/economics/letter/2007/el2007-30.html
>
> Many researches identify this as the reason that a larger percentage of 
> rich
> people commit suicide than poor people.  When you operate on my cash 
> income,
> it isn't going to fall far!  But when go about boasting to everyone how
> successful you are in business and how financially well of you are, you 
> have a long
> way to fall and more opportunity to fall.