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Suicidology is the scientific study of suicidal behaviour, the causes of suicidalness and suicide prevention. [1] Every year, about one million people die by suicide, which is a mortality rate of sixteen per 100,000 or one death every forty seconds. [ 2 ]
The ‘onlys’ can be torturous.’” Last year, Cerel published a study examining the consequences of suicide and found that each one could affect as many as 135 other people. The fundamental mystery of suicide has long made it an object of fear and contempt within the medical establishment.
Suicide: A Study in Sociology (French: Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie) is an 1897 book written by French sociologist Émile Durkheim.It was the second methodological study of a social fact in the context of society (it was preceded by a sociological study by a Czech author, later the president of Czechoslovakia: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Der Selbstmord als soziale Massenerscheinung der ...
Risk of ruin is a concept in gambling, insurance, and finance relating to the likelihood of losing all one's investment capital or extinguishing one's bankroll below the minimum for further play. [1] For instance, if someone bets all their money on a simple coin toss, the risk of ruin is 50%.
Thanks to incredible advances in medicine and a collective shift toward healthy living, people are living longer than ever. According to KFF Health News, the number of Americans aged 85 and up grew...
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Kerry Hannon: Is conventional financial advice about retirement all wrong? Laurence Kotlikoff: “The financial industry steers people looking for retirement planning advice into a fantasyland.
The case study found that from 2004 to 2008, banks focused their efforts heavily on RMBS and CDO securities, complex and high risk financial products that they could bundle and sell to investors who did not necessarily know the composition of the product. Financial institutions issued $2.5 trillion in RMBS and $1.4 trillion in CDO securities.