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Comment author: teageegeepea 17 July 2009 01:52:46AM 0 points [-]

For some reason, European countries speaking Finno-Ugric langauges have high suicide rates:

Comment author: taw 17 July 2009 02:57:43AM 1 point [-]

It doesn't seem so, Estonia has a lot lower rate than nearby Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus.

Hungary has slightly lower rate than its Slavic neighbour Slovenia. Its other neighbours Croatia and Serbia and Montenegro have fairy high rates too.

Finland has higher suicide rate than Sweden and Norway, but much lower than its other neighbour Russia, and comparable with nearby Estonia.

These facts are pretty good counter-evidence for the theory that there's some special Finno-Ugric - suicide connection.

Comment author: dclayh 17 July 2009 04:56:50AM 3 points [-]

These facts are pretty good counter-evidence for the theory that there's some special Finno-Ugric - suicide connection.

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