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Originally Posted by nanofever
I ask why people in Sweden are the happiest people on Earth,
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Damn you, now I have the MASH theme in my head.
That suicide is painless.
It brings on many changes.
And I can take or leave it if I please.
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Sweden tends to be held in the highest regard by American socialists for her highly progressive tax structure and universal health care. But according to statistics provided by the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control, Swedes are 50% more likely to kill themselves than Americans. Some theorists speculate that this stems from cold winters and/or cultural influences. Yet in Minnesota, (where it gets colder, rains just as much, and is full of Scandinavians) the suicide rate is still 36% lower than that of Mother Sweden. I don’t think it’s coincidental that the Swedish suicide rate is close to that of her socialist sister, Canada. For all the talk of gun violence here in the United States, your average Canadian is more than twice as likely to take his own life as an American cousin is to be murdered by an act of gun violence.
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