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The Saddest National Anthems in the World
Our latest Freakonomics Radio podcast, “The Suicide Paradox,” (You can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here) investigates the mystery of suicide. Photo: The U.S....
View ArticleFreakonomics Poll: Would You Stop Someone From Jumping Off a Bridge?
In the last Freakonomics Radio episode “The Suicide Paradox” (you can download/subscribe at iTunes, get the RSS feed, or read the transcript here), we talked to a San Francisco cabbie with a long name...
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China’s Suicide Rate Among the Highest in the World
(Lifesize) September 10th is World Suicide Prevention Day. Timely, since our latest podcast is “The Paradox of Suicide.” It focuses on the specter of suicide and how, strangely, it tends to be more...
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Why Do Elected Coroners Underreport Suicide?
(iStockphoto) The WSJ reports on a new study that finds that elected coroners report 15% fewer suicides than do appointed medical examiners. The researchers looked at 1,578 counties with elected...
View ArticleWhen Assisted Suicide Goes From Theory To Practice
Time magazine has a poignant story (which is gated) and video (which is available) on Dr. Peter Goodwin, one of the advocates who helped get assisted suicide laws in place in Oregon and Washington....
View ArticleU.S. Suicide Rates Rise
News reports today discuss the prevalence and rise of suicide in the U.S. We reported in depth on the topic of suicide in our 2011 hour-long podcast “The Suicide Paradox.” The episode explores the...
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An Easy Way to Cut Down on Pill Suicides?
(Photo: Sage Ross) Ezekiel Emanuel, who’s popped up in our blog and podcasts, writes in the Times about a simple way to reduce suicides: We need to make it harder to buy pills in bottles of 50 or 100...
View ArticleFREAK-est Links
In Nashville, Tenn., homicide is at a historic low. (HT: Wesley Hartline) We investigated suicide in our podcast “The Suicide Paradox“; The New York Times profiles Matthew K. Nock, Harvard’s “suicide...
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Coffee and Suicide
(Photo: Timothy Boyd) In our hour-long podcast “The Suicide Paradox,” we explored some of the facts and myths about suicide. A new Harvard study highlights another interesting fact: coffee drinkers...
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On Suicide and Guns
(Photo: Michael Martelli) We’ve blogged quite a bit about suicide and put out an hour-long podcast on the topic. The podcast featured an interview with Matt Wray, a sociologist who studies America’s...
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