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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by DaniFong on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:02PM (#22005705)
That stood out to me as well, indeed the numbers vary a lot nationally and ethnically.

How are you supposed to study it, though? Not exactly a good situation for an exit poll.

Imaginably the government could be in a position to grant a gift, and help, to offer a moment of respite from whatever is causing the most distress -- that might help some people...

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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by whatshisface on Thursday January 09, 2020 @04:20PM (#22005902)
You could give the survey to random people, and when somebody dies, you go back and find their most recent survey. That's their exit poll.
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Re:For suicide prevention, try raising the minimum wage, res... by DaniFong on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:52PM (#22006757)
yeah, that could work if it was wide scale enough.

apparently google and facebook already have some kind of tech that estimates if people are vulnerable to suicidal ideation based on searches ("hey google, how do I kill myself painlessly?" gives the national suicide prevention hotline -- good)

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