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[quote=BARONTWANGLE,322400]Dodger - I think the suicide figure which is being suggested here is running away from reality.  In the initial thread, it was mentioned that "about 250,000" people in China kill themselves annually.  For any Americans - this doesn't mean the same people kill themselves every year - it means that in one year this is how many people kill themselves!  Then in the next comment the figure magically jumps to 520,000!  Not even the western media dramatise a Chinese story that much!  According the the World Health Organisation, the figure is 182,000.  China's male suicide rate is among the lowest in the world, but the high female rate pushes them to just above average.  As I mentioned before, China is the only country in the world to have a higher female to male suicide rate.

Maybe it's a way of keeping the population under control.  The males kill themselves by smoking, and the females just kill themselves by er..... well..... killing themselves!

Now I have just been out to buy a bible, and am frantically searching for a passage which may have been overlooked in the past where it says something like "Thou shall ascend directly to eternal heaven, passing St Peter and the Pearly Gates to a rapturous applause by all the other saints, if one shall only take ones life in the most painful way possible".  I haven't found it yet, but I am hopeful it is in there somewhere.  I'll inform all the American news channels once I have found it, and then we can all have a good time watching a billion people entertain us with their imaginations![/quote]

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