Why doesn't anyone ever do the math?
BBC. The study shows that each year more than a quarter-of-a-million people in China are taking their own lives. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]
China's rate is half Japan's, less half than Western Europe's. What's different is who (it's only country where rate for women exceeds rate for men), why (less due to "mental illness" than in the west) and how (drinking pesticides, which are "easily available"). Yeow.
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