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[Rico, I hope this is OK -- it's plain text] Over the last 100 days (from December 9 2002 till March 19, 2003), I have been taking note of suicides in Goa, as reported in the daily news extracts we get from Joel D'Souza. The following figures appear: In these 100 days, there have been 27 suicides (just over one every 4 days) -- 17 were males and 10 females. The average age of male suicides is 33.64 and of female suicides 28.8. The overall average age is 31.85. The youngest make suicide was 18 and the oldest 56, while the youngest female suicide was 16 and the oldest 53. I am not a sociologist, neither a psychologist. But I find these figures disturbing. Comments? Prof. Dennis Kurzon Department of English University of Haifa Israel 31905 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: 972-4-8240532 fax: 972-4-8249711 http://english.haifa.ac.il/staff/dKurzon.htm _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.goanet.org/mailman/listinfo/goanet
