Posted by sigismund on June 10, 2012, at 15:13:14
In reply to Re: One more... *trigger* » sigismund, posted by SLS on June 9, 2012, at 6:29:07
>If there were no organized belief in a hereafter in paradise, how would that affect the suicide rate?
Perhaps there have been societies which have not had a belief in the hereafter and the suicide rate compared to ones which do after controlling for other variables?
My hunch is that suicide rises when life is more meaningless. If the troops are in your street and liable to drag you off to God knows where, you might kill yourself but only rationally as a defensive measure. I guess in such societies during war you can simply be brave if you are feeling hopeless and suicidal? Perhaps that is how many Germans and Russians felt?
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