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#562 Jason Manning - Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction

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Suicide Statistics

Suicide is still a rare phenomenon. Maybe it's, i won't to use this phrase, its cleashete but the giver heard the phrase, the perfect storm. But if your base line risk is near zero, tripling the risk still means very few people who experience that variable will commit suicide. That would be my instinct when looking for why these outcomes are so rare relative to the risk factors.

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