Money Quote by Christina Johansson Robinowitz

“Suicide has been included in Swedish population statistics (starting in church records) since the 1600s, and this may contribute to the country’s prominent reputation…

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

“While one might expect that suicide is highest among people whose lives are the hardest, research by Lester and others suggests the opposite: suicide…

— Steven D. Levitt

“Also, Swedes are often reluctant to express strong emotions, including anger or disapproval, a theme that emerges in many areas of Swedish culture. An…

— Christina Johansson Robinowitz

“Suicide and depression rates, to take one revealing statistic, have shot up in countries with the fastest-growing economies. So has the number of young…

— Pankaj Mishra

“David Lester, a psychology professor at Richard Stockton College in New Jersey, has likely thought about suicide longer, harder, and from more angles than…

— Steven D. Levitt

Suicide is what the death certificate says when one dies of depression.

— Peter D. Kramer

“Émile Durkheim, the father of modern sociology, said that when societies hit a civilisational break the suicide rate soars.”

— Edward Luce

Where I grew up in Brooklyn, nobody committed suicide. Everyone was too unhappy.

— Woody Allen

The US and Europe are committing suicide in different ways. In Europe it's austerity in the midst of recession and that's guaranteed to be…

— Noam Chomsky

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it…

— Joanne Greenberg

Every seventeen minutes in America, someone commits suicide. Mostly, I have been impressed by how little value our society puts on saving the lives…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

“That makes three suicides without logical explanations. Now, for people like Fitzhugh and the senator, with their kind of financial base, there’s counseling at…

— J.D. Robb