Morselli identified four groups on the basis of suicidal rates, put them in descending order and concluded that the Germans had the highest rate of suicides, then came the Celto-Romans, third stood the Slavs and the last group was too small to assess. ... Despite common assumptions of suicide rates being higher during the dark and gloomy winters, statistical data point towards suicide rates being higher during the warmer months, without exception in any country. ... Same applies when a distinction in suicide rates is made between villages and cities. ... Durkheim says that if imitation or cont...

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If you were to ask me a month ago where I stood on gun control, I would have told you it is the right of every American to bear arms. ... With guns there is more crime and with concealed weapons there are more homicide rates. ... LoGerfo, you see an example of two cities Seattle and Vancouver, which have common a geography, climate, history, similar schooling and unemployment rate. ... Showing that with guns there is a higher homicide rate, therefore we should ban guns. ... Vancouver's firearm homicide was lower than Seattle's showing that laws can make a difference and reduce homic...

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Another reason that makes me think that they shouldn't have different gun control laws in different places is because I knew a person that buys guns in New York, and some how got them over here and sells them to people by tripling the price. I have asked him how he got them over here, but he never told me how he did it. He told me that he has done this for many years until one time he got caught when he was selling them and was jailed for 6 or 7 months. ... According to the FBI estimate the homicide rate is beginning to fall from 7.0 to 6.2 per 10,000 in 1998.8 This tells us that not many...

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A case study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January of 1996, proposed that the suicide rates among people age 65 and older has increased since 1980 (Devons, 1996). A study conducted in 1991 showed the suicide rates among the elderly were also 50% higher then those among younger people. ... Depression may also not be detected because of the high rates of co-morbity which masked the symptoms of depression. ...

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(Stone 1991) The suicide rate for adolescents age 15 to 24 tripled between 1958 and 1978. ... (Stone 1991) Although black youths have historically had lower suicide rates than have whites, during the period 1980 to 1995, the suicide rates increased 233% for blacks 10 to 14 years old compared with 120% increase for whites. ... However, although the rate of suicide by firearms increased more than suicide by other methods suicide rates also increased markedly in many other countries in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, where suicide by firearms is rare. ... (Pediatrics 2000) Took fathers gun, i...

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As soon as I got home from school, I quickly changed into my most comfortable pair of sweat pants and a Gators shirt, grabbed a bag of chips, and strolled over to the couch to watch some television before I had to start my homework. But to my surprise, I didn't even turn the channel, before I was c...

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It is obvious to me that love between parent and child is lacking in most families. ... Running away from an abusive home seems to me to be a well developed coping mechanism. ... Homeless adolescents also report high rates of other early institutional contact including inpatient psychia...

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The Results Out of 3,384 initial subjects, 2,501 participated in the survey, giving a 74% response rate. 395 refused, 356 were not able to be contacted after 5 attempts, 53 were not able to speak any of the given languages of English, Italian, Greek or Vietnamese. 64 were unable to be interviewed, and 12 stopped the interview before giving complete data. ... It seems to me that this experiment opened up the real statistic of how many people suffer from depression. ... In my opinion, this whole experiment, to me, did not just show that clinical depression is more associated with suicidal i...

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For I live in eager expectation and hope that I will never do anything that will cause me to be ashamed of myself but that I will always be ready to speak out boldly for Christ while I am going through all these trials here, just as I have in the past; and that I will always be an honour to Christ, whether I live or whether I must die. For to me, living means opportunities for Christ, and dying well, that's better yet! But if living will give me more opportunities to win people to Christ, then I really don't know which is better, to live or to die! ... How much happier for me than b...

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At any rate, that was how it looked to his Father, and he sought to correct him by constant nagging and beating. ... He heard the blow he heard Ikemefuna cry, "My Father, they have killed me" as he ran towards him Okonkwo drew his machete and cut him down." ...

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He was the one who had to watch his wife being treating by seemingly second rate and emotionless technicians, not doctors. ... This book really made me think how life would be as described in the world of Fahrenheit 451. ...

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I have an excellent future ahead of me. ... The Centers for Disease Control report that between 1980 and 1993 the suicide rate has risen 120% for 10-14 year olds, and for 15-19 year olds it has risen almost 30%. ... The suicide rate for whites is nearly twice as high as it is for nonwhites. ...

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Rates increase with age and are highest among Americans aged 65 years and older. ... My mother has told me how her sister had acted and how it was very hard for her to watch her go through something so devastating. ... All she did was read, she read everything, my mother even told me that she had even read encyclopedias, she was very smart. ...

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Many ignorant people believe that the "legalization of suicide" opens the door for potential abuse of the practice; thereby legally allowing for an increase in suicide rates. ... It is hard for me to draw any conclusions from this, but the other statistics are more telling. ...

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While females attempt suicide more often than males, at a rate of four to one, males are more often successful (Teen Suicide 15-16). ... They might say something along the lines like, "The world would be better without me." ...

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