Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera

Re:Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera by benterix on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @05:37AM (#46044519)

The stats from enclosed page are quite interesting. People speak today about depression/suicide epidemic, but when you look at that old numbers, "grief" and "hanged themselves" together give a top percentage.

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Re:Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera by constantcrying on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @06:10AM (#46044704)

Read the rest of the page. These are diseases the author deems "notorious". Taking grief and hanged themselves together that makes around 500 out of 229250 deaths. Which is very low. Globally around 1% of deaths are suicides, which is more than 4 times higher.

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Re:Dumb Ways to Die: Printed Ephemera by graemep on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @09:34AM (#46046105)

It was even lower going further back.

People had harder lives in so many ways, but they did not commit suicide so were in some way mentally healthier.

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