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To: epicure who wrote (72985)	6/19/2008 1:48:40 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542201

There were over 30,000 suicides in Japan last year and a marked increase in crimes like random stabbings in public places. The government is trying to find explanations for what seems to be an epidemic. This raises a couple of questions for me. 1) Do we have a responsibility to do something along the lines of 'saving lives' and if so, how so? By saving lives I don't mean just keeping people from dieing, I mean encouraging circumstances that define life as 'worth living' for populations obviously suffering from extreme despondency. 2) Do we need new or revised statutes in this area? 3) Or, ignore it and hope it goes away?