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Episode · Freakonomics Radio · 2011-08-31

Books mentioned on 40. The Suicide Paradox

1 book · With Dan Everett, Steve Levitt, David Lester, Matt Ray, Donna Barnes, David Phillips, Thomas Niederkrotenthaler, Zoltan Riemer, Katalin Zanto, Agnes Rácnagy, Bela Buda, Pansak Po Maha Supap Po, Dan Hamermesh, Margaret Batten, Margaret Heilbrunn · Listen

There are more than twice as many suicides as murders in the U.S.

Mentioned: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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  1. The Sorrows of Young Werther

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · at 22:12

    The Sorrows of Young Werther is an epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that chronicles the intense, unrequited romantic passion and ultimate tragic demise of a young artist.

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    “The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. May 4th. How happy I am that I am gone. For those of you who have never read it, I had never read it, The Sorrows of Young Werther was written mostly as a series of fictional letters by a young dilettante artist named Werther.”
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Passing The Last Gift of Time
“She even wrote a book called The Last Gift of Time, Life Beyond 60. Her daughter says she took a lot of pleasure in life, even the small things.”
Stephen Dubner 40. The Suicide Paradox 2011-08-31
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