I don't like playing cultural imperialist, but something about current Asian cultures seems to me to be broken: this isn't exactly the first suicide of its sort, or even an uncommon phenomenon, just one of the more high-profile cases (since it's Apple, and a senior guy). Western culture isn't immune to these effects either (cf. high-profile financial advisors committing suicide in 2008-2009), but I understand that it's significantly more of an issue in Asia. I'd hazard that it's something in the common imp
Just an FYI, in Asia most suicides are classified as something else in true crime rates. In order to affect a lower suicide rate in the overall data trending. European data trending can be higher because they sometimes include 'other' crimes into their suicide figures during data reporting.
Never trust data, unless you see the raw data sets yourself.
Is that like some cops classifying "white guy walking into a black gangsta neighborhood while wearing a t-shirt with racially inflammatory words printed on it" as suicide, and some not?:)
Is that like some cops classifying "white guy walking into a black gangsta neighborhood while wearing a t-shirt with racially inflammatory words printed on it" as suicide, and some not?:)
Well not quite, more like this. In Japan for example a suicide, where someone jumps off a bridge and drowns may be classified as a drowning. Where as someone who commits suicide but pillpopping is an overdose, and someone who hangs themselves is an actual suicide.
Where in some countries in Europe, pillpo
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Poor guy... (Score:5, Interesting)
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I don't like playing cultural imperialist, but something about current Asian cultures seems to me to be broken: this isn't exactly the first suicide of its sort, or even an uncommon phenomenon, just one of the more high-profile cases (since it's Apple, and a senior guy). Western culture isn't immune to these effects either (cf. high-profile financial advisors committing suicide in 2008-2009), but I understand that it's significantly more of an issue in Asia. I'd hazard that it's something in the common imp
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According to this [who.int] the top 7 are not Asian. China is way down there, below France, Poland, Switzerland, Uruguay.
Country, Male Suicide per 100k, Female suicide per 100k, total pop suicide per 100k, year
Lithuania 68.1 12.9 38.6 2005
Belarus 63.3 10.3 35.1 2003
Russia 58.1 9.8 32.2 2005
Slovenia 42.1 11.1 26.3 2006
Hungary 42.3 11.2 26.0 2005
Kazakhstan 45.0 8.1 25.9 2005
Latvia 42.0 9.6 24.5 2005
Japan 34.8 1
Re:Poor guy... (Score:5, Insightful)
Just an FYI, in Asia most suicides are classified as something else in true crime rates. In order to affect a lower suicide rate in the overall data trending. European data trending can be higher because they sometimes include 'other' crimes into their suicide figures during data reporting.
Never trust data, unless you see the raw data sets yourself.
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Is that like some cops classifying "white guy walking into a black gangsta neighborhood while wearing a t-shirt with racially inflammatory words printed on it" as suicide, and some not?
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Well not quite, more like this. In Japan for example a suicide, where someone jumps off a bridge and drowns may be classified as a drowning. Where as someone who commits suicide but pillpopping is an overdose, and someone who hangs themselves is an actual suicide.
Where in some countries in Europe, pillpo