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Re:Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21 by rms on Sunday November 13, 2011 @08:22PM (#3232403)
The US loses about as many troops to suicide as combat. :( http://www.congress.org/news/2011/01/24/more_troops_lost_to_...

I think we'd have a much more harmonious society if we put lithium in the water rather than fluoride. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/194/5/464.abstract

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Re:Diaspora Co-Founder Ilya Zhitomirskiy Passes Away At 21 by radicaldreamer on Monday November 14, 2011 @01:12AM (#3233114)
The suggestion is treating the symptoms rather than the cause though.

If, instead of just putting fluoride in the water, there was a serious effort made to reduce the amount of refined sugars in our diets, there would be many more arguably beneficial effects other than just reducing tooth decay.

Similarly, instead of thinking about lithiated water, we should really try to treat some of the causes of suicide.

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