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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Why Denmark isn’t the utopian fantasy Bernie Sanders describes [View all]Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)21. In the US anyway women tend to use less surely lethal means of attempting suicide than men
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicide
The role that gender plays as a risk factor for suicide has been studied extensively. While females tend to show higher rates of reported nonfatal suicidal behavior and suicide ideation, males have a much higher rate of completed suicides.[2][7] However, a 2009 study tends to show little to no difference in suicidal ideation between men and women.[7] A 2008 study of suicide attempts by gender found that females have a higher rate of attempted suicide than males earlier in life, and that this rate decreases with age.[8] For males, the rate of attempted suicide remains fairly constant when controlled for age. Males and females also tend to differ in their methods of suicide and responses to suicidal feelings.
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Under the bus, Denmark! Did you read the bio of the author who was interviewed?
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#9
Whenever someone tries to save you the trouble of reading an article, read it.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#24
Yep, the op and others are trying to misrepresent Bernie AND the author.
beam me up scottie
Nov 2015
#48
That's always an interesting one, because the highest happiness and highest suicide rates coincide
Recursion
Nov 2015
#12
I think there may be a bias against admitting suicide for what it is in many cultures
Fumesucker
Nov 2015
#13
Yeah, when they say he was playing Russian roulette and the gun was an automatic?
Fumesucker
Nov 2015
#18
In the US anyway women tend to use less surely lethal means of attempting suicide than men
Fumesucker
Nov 2015
#21
Millions of Americans have no healthcare at all. That's as substandard as it gets.
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#32
Links? Stats? Anything to prove Denmarks got crap healthcare and education
riderinthestorm
Nov 2015
#44
Substandard compared to what? Certainly not the US. Substandard would be an improvement.
arcane1
Nov 2015
#52
This is such mencacity. Bernie never called Demark a Utopia, he spoke of the Scandinavian countries
Bluenorthwest
Nov 2015
#31
No one used the word utopia except the food critic who wrote the specious article.
Wilms
Nov 2015
#55
Strawman alert! He's never defined it as "Utopian Fantasy". He said they have some good ideas.
arcane1
Nov 2015
#51
What is important is not what your make, but what you take home after taxes.
CajunBlazer
Nov 2015
#61
The point I was trying to make is the the Danes probably wouldn't be able....
CajunBlazer
Nov 2015
#78