{"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’s Suicide Problem – Daniel Griffiths"},"content":{"rendered":"
China has one of the highest rates of female suicide, especially in the poor rural areas. From BBC News:<\/p>\n
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
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
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
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Three times more women kill themselves in the countryside than in the cities.<\/p>\n
More women kill themselves than men in a country where the number of suicides every year is 50% higher than the global average. [Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
China has one of the highest rates of female suicide, especially in the poor rural areas. From BBC News: 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. That alone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2258,514],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society","tag-rural-areas","tag-suicide","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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