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nommm-nommm on Nov 8, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: A machine learning approach to identifying thought...

I wouldn't call suicide really rare, it's the 10th most common cause of death in the US

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

hga on Nov 8, 2016 [–]

Although nowadays you have to view these statistics carefully, for X, Y, and Z causes of death inevitably rise as I, J, and K get knocked down by modern medicine, all we've done to reduce many types of accidental death, from 5 gallon buckets to cars, etc.

But, yeah, in this case I agree it's a big problem in the US.

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