The Income Gap In Assisted Suicide

Tuesday, February 18, 2014 - 23:00 in Psychology & Sociology

It used to be that only rich people could afford to be fat. Now only rich people can afford to be thin. And there's even a growing income gap when it comes to suicide. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland but that doesn't make it equal, and the authors of a paper in the International Journal of Epidemiology have found that assisted suicide is more common in wealthier areas. read more

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