Monday, Aug. 28, 1944

No Time to Die

U.S. citizens are now too busy and too prosperous for suicide, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reported. During 1943, U.S. suicides dropped from the average 19,000 of pre-Pearl Harbor years to a mere 13,000. Sharpest decline in the urge to self-destruction (a 35% drop) was among insured women in the 20-to-25 age group.

Metropolitan reached the traditional conclusion that a falling suicide rate indicates: 1) a business boom, 2) high civilian morale.

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