I think I recall also reading somewhere that suicide rates dropped markedly during both the Great Depression and WW II.
John At 11:43 AM 10/1/01 -0400, you wrote: >A lot of Soviet citizens, similarly, (retrospectively) claimed they were >happiest during World War II, when something like 1-out-of-8 perished! >-- > Prof. Bryan Caplan > Department of Economics George Mason University > http://www.bcaplan.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > "Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we > ascribe to Moses, Plato, and Milton is, that they set at naught > books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what *they* > thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of > light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the > lustre of the firmament of bards and sages." > --Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance"
