Editorial: 'Deaths of despair': The grim decline in life expectancy
by Chicago Tribune
Dec 03, 2018
2 minutes
The cover of a recent issue of The Economist magazine highlighted a heartening story: "Staying alive: Why the global suicide rate is falling." Inside, we learn, "Globally the rate has fallen by 38 percent from its peak in 1994. As a result, over 4 million lives have been saved."
One country, however, is a stark exception to this welcome improvement: the United States. The federal Centers
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