Suicidal Tendencies

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/03/20/suicidal_tendencies?pg=full

I found this article written by Christine Kenneally about the relationship between IQ and suicide. Christine Kenneally is one of the authors who will be at tomorrows River City Writers Series event. So while I was looking at her blog I found this article.

The article talks about studies that have been done that link people's IQs to their suicidal tendencies. It talked mostly about men in their studies. (I find it interesting that they linked low IQs with men...ha). But the studies that were done we conducted in Sweden and other Scandinavian countries which have the highest suicide rates in the world. When I read that I thought of course they have the highest suicide rate! It's so fucking cold there people would rather kill themselves than be that cold. Ha, no. The study related IQ and education with suicide. It showed that men with low IQs but with lower level education were no more likely to kill themselves. But men with low IQs that had higher education were more likely to kill themselves. I can see how that would be true. If you have well-educated parents and you attend a higher level education such as college, you may feel inadequate if you have a low IQ. That puts pressure on someone to do well and if they fail it can push someone into depression which in turn can cause someone to kill themselves.

I don't know how anyone could ever kill themself. I think everyone gets depressed at some point in their life and may think there is nothing good going for them, I mean I've thought that before. But even if I ever thought things were so bad that I needed to kill myself, I don't think I would ever have the guts to do it. It just baffles me how people can do that to themselves.