Friday, 11. October 2013
Topic: NEWS english - on October 11, 2013 at 3:49:00 PM CEST
French farming hit by a suicide every two days
Suicide is the third-highest cause of death among French farmers, after cancer and cardio-vascular diseases, a report by the French health institute INVS revealed on Thursday.
In a three year period between 2007 and 2009, 485 farmers took their own lives, which represents a suicide every two days on average. The rate of suicides among farmers is 20 percent higher than among the French population as a whole.
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