{"id":85171,"date":"2018-11-27T01:02:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/why-suicide-is-falling-around-the-world-and-how-to-bring-it-down-more"},"modified":"2018-11-27T01:02:23","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T09:02:23","slug":"why-suicide-is-falling-around-the-world-and-how-to-bring-it-down-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/why-suicide-is-falling-around-the-world-and-how-to-bring-it-down-more","title":{"rendered":"Why suicide is falling around the world, and how to bring it down more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-suicide-is-falling-around-the-world-and-how-to-bring-it-down-more.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For a few people\u2014those who are terminally ill, in severe pain and determined to die\u2014suicide may be the least terrible option. In such circumstances, and with firm safeguards, doctors should be allowed to assist. But many of the 800,000 people who kill themselves each year act in haste, and more could be saved with better health services, labour-market policies and curbs on booze, guns, pesticide and pills. America, in particular, could spare much pain by learning from the progress elsewhere.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Urbanisation, fewer forced marriages and more curbs on the means of self-destruction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-suicide-is-falling-around-the-world-and-how-to-bring-it-down-more.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" srcSet=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/200-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/300-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 300w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/400-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 400w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/640-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 640w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/800-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 800w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1000-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 1000w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1200-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 1200w, \/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1280-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 1280w,\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/1600-width\/images\/print-edition\/20181124_LDD002_0.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 600px)  640px, calc(100vw - 20px)\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2018\/11\/24\/why-suicide-is-falling-around-the-world-and-how-to-bring-it-down-more\">https:\/\/www.economist.com\/leaders\/2018\/11\/24\/why-suicide-is-...-down-more<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a few people\u2014those who are terminally ill, in severe pain and determined to die\u2014suicide may be the least terrible option. In such circumstances, and with firm safeguards, doctors should be allowed to assist. But many of the 800,000 people who kill themselves each year act in haste, and more could be saved with better [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}