{"id":13042,"date":"2007-06-05T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T23:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/05\/rural-chinas-suicide-problem-daniel-griffiths\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T23:47:06","slug":"rural-chinas-suicide-problem-daniel-griffiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2007\/06\/rural-chinas-suicide-problem-daniel-griffiths\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural China&#8217;s Suicide Problem &#8211; Daniel Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"_42996175_li203.jpg\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_42996175_li203.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"142\" \/> China has one of the highest rates of female suicide, especially in the poor rural areas. From BBC News:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his small home, deep in the poor mountainous north of China, Sun Jiangbao slowly lifts himself from his bed into his wheelchair. A recent mining accident left him paralysed from the waist down.<\/p>\n<p>That alone would be hard enough to live with. But just a few years before the accident his wife killed herself by drinking poison after they got into an argument.<\/p>\n<p>Now every day is a struggle to survive. The only person left to care for him is his 60-year-old mother.   <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three times more women kill themselves in the countryside than in the cities.<\/p>\n<p>More women kill themselves than men in a country where the number of suicides every year is 50% higher than the global average. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/6711415.stm\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has one of the highest rates of female suicide, especially in the poor rural areas. 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