Suicide is one of the most tragic mental illnessses. Although suicide is viewed quite similarly around the world, its frequency varies tremendously. For example, in Lithuania rates for men were almost 82 and women we 13 out of 100,00 people. This rate is serveral times more than that of Egypt. This shows that Suicide is more significatn in some cultures than others.
I believe that this has a lot to do with culture as in the areas where suicide is very high, their religion is very prohibited against suicide.
A reason why suicide is underlied with a great risk in Canadian populations, is for example in the first nations as these youths are growing up they can no longer relate or identify much with their traditional culture. Therefore this absence of culture might relate to the heightened suicide among first nation Canadian people.
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