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Re:The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You by masklinn on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:12AM (#11548124)
> The rest of the countries all get more sunlight (Guyana, Suriname and Sri Lanka for instance) than the countries generally accepted as happiest in the world: Denmark (ironically, considering the story), Switzerland, Iceland and Norway.

South Korea as well, its latitude roughly matches the northern half of Tunisia (Seoul's latitude is 37°33′N, Tunisia's northernmost city of Bizerte is at 37°16′N)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catania

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Re:The Arctic Suicides: It's Not the Dark That Kills You by trhway on Friday April 22, 2016 @06:26AM (#11548164)
South Korea is definitely not about weather :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_South_Korea#Age

"The main cause of South Korea's relatively high suicide rate is due to the elderly's substantially high suicide rate, which is significantly dragging up the otherwise relatively low average rate. This is due to poor elderly people killing themselves not to be a burden on their families,..."

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