Right-wing governments 'increase suicide rates'

national | miscellaneous | news report Thursday September 19, 2002 11:26 by pat c

Right-wing governments may sap some people's will to live and result in more suicides, conclude studies in Britain and Australia. The researchers speculate that losers are more likely to kill themselves in the individualistic, "winner-takes-all" societies favoured by right wing governments, because they are left to fend for themselves. Wide disparities in wealth also sharpen any sense of hopelessness, the researchers argue.(More at New Scientist.)