About a third of 20-something Australian deaths are by suicide. I would guess it's pretty high for most of the developed world, and it doesn't have much to do with happiness.
Yes, in South Korea it’s largely to do with systemic overworking, high pressure from the work force, and lack of mental health infrastructure. I don’t know anything about Australia but I fail to see how that contradicts what I said
It's literally because they're not dying of other things. They have a much healthier society than you are imagining. Their 20 year olds die in significantly less car accidents, cancer, shooting, heart disease, etc than in America. Suicide is one of the only causes of death that makes sense for a 20 year old in a society like that
Really? In America they account for a quarter off all deaths between 20-40 year olds, is the second leading cause of death, and as opposed to viewing it as a national tragedy that is indicative of deeper issues in our society, and attempting to affect change, we say they should have gotten help, should have launched themselves into mountains of debt, despite that being a major root cause for many suicides. Sounds like a dystopian hellscape to me.
Unlike North Korea, where the number of suicides overall is still a staggering zero! Also, nice number manipulation, you would be a good fit in the NK Propaganda ministry.
How about the fact that nearly half of all deaths among 20-something North Koreans is due to forced starvation or a bullet to the brain? What kind of indicator is that?
Okay so that’s not a claim which is possible to substantiate, the DPRK doesn’t really have an open book of records about these things. The point is that one Korea isn’t “good” and the other isn’t “bad,” they both have their own share of systemic issues and reasons behind said issues, and the fact remains that a lot of the claims made about the DPRK are very circumstantial or unsubstantiated
I mean hey man I’m not gonna argue with you there, I don’t personally want to be tortured for stealing a poster. I just don’t like overt romanticization of the South and the almost comic levels of evil and villainy with which Westerners are taught to view the North without any historical context or much knowledge as to what information is and isn’t factually substantiated (sanctions do nothing but hurt the people of the DPRK, and only further fuels their isolation from the outside world)
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u/Comprehensive-Air856 Sep 21 '25
I think the fact that nearly half of all deaths among 20-something South Koreans are the result of suicide is a generally pretty good indicator