Please Kill Yourself, We Need Space & Oxygen. Some Say It's An Ethical, If Not Moral, Action.

Having flirted w/ the ideas of both suicide (preferably yours) & murder (our murder of you — a collective, statistical you, by the way, totally impersonal — after which we may check ourself out) we found this to be fascinating:(Yglesias is proving to be an excellent source for the theft of intellectual property, if nothing else.)

This one has a few more countiesnations heard from,& the difference in colors & percentiles makes for an even more graphic (in every sense) depiction (or deception). 

What really caught our limited attention span, other than the opportunity to engage in threatening typing, was which nations collect/report such stats. Whatever the sources for these images, sub-Saharan Afrika, the Mohammedan crescent, & (It's not "Outer" any more, is it?) Mongolia either don't count or don't tell. In some regions we'll bet it's like Iranian president Ahmadinejad stating there were no homosexuals in Iran. No suicides here in gawd's paradise on earth. Or North Korea or Bolivia(?). 

We were a bit startled by New Zealand being in the red zone, but on reflection it must be similar to Scandinavia. (Perpetual autumn, rather than perpetual snowy winter, but it hardly ever snows in Seattle, which is reputed to have a high count. Few breakdowns by city/county easily locatable. Who cares, anyway? Is this peer-reviewed science here?) Also, sheep can be very depressing. 

Or is it island life? Note also Cuba, Ireland, & Sri Lanka. Red states all.