suicide
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Miscellaneous anecdotes:
"Suicide rates in Greenland increase during the summer, peaking in June. Researchers speculate that insomnia caused by incessant daylight may be to blame."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/rel…"According to government reports, between 20% and 25% of Greenlanders attempt to kill themselves at some point in their lifetime.[1] Greenland also has by far the highest suicide rate in the world: reports between 1985 and 2012 showed that an average of 83 people in 100,000 committed suicide, more than twice the rate of the second placed country, Lithuania.[2]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Su…"About one person in 10 000 dies by suicide every year (1.4% of all deaths), with reported rates per 100 000 population of 10.7 in 2015 (was 11.6 in 2008). In Western countries male and female rates of suicidal behaviors differ at a greater degree compared to those in the rest of the world.[4][5][6] Around 30% of global suicides are due to pesticide self-poisoning, most of which occur in rural agricultural areas in low- and middle-income countries consisting in about 80% world population; some of them are forbidden by United Nations (UN) conventions.[7][8] In high-income countries consisting of the remaining 20% world population most common methods are firearms, hanging and other self-poisoning. Europe is the most suicidal region in the entire world, while the Eastern Mediterranean the least.[9][10]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li…"In the western world, males die by suicide three to four times more often than do females.[4][7]"
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