{"id":2645,"date":"2009-03-14T08:44:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2645"},"modified":"2009-03-14T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T18:07:37","slug":"shortened-life-index","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2645","title":{"rendered":"Shortened Life Index"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSTRE52A01D20090312\">Alabama<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5g-7Dbm7W0ADoXhfKS2O_sUrZu4NwD96S47T01\">German<\/a> massacres of this week I asked Joaquin Mirkin of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.safe-democracy.org\">foundation<\/a> to put together for me what I call the Shortened Life Index. \u00a0This index is the addition of the murder rate and the suicide rate of a country. \u00a0Now what is interesting about this index is that there clearly is an inverse <span class=\"zem_slink\">correlation<\/span> between suicide rates and homicide rates around the world. \u00a0Countries with very high suicide rates tend to have very low homicide rates and viceversa. \u00a0I don\u00b4t know why.<\/p>\n<p>Some curious data. Islamic countries, known for suicide terrorists, are the countries with the lowest Shortened Life Index. Suicide terrorists are a really small percentage and the Shortened Life Index for Iran and Saudi Arabia suggest they are very safe countries to live in.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s safer to live in Mexico or Argentina with their frequent homicides then in\u00a0Switzerland, a country with so many suicides that its Shortened Life Index is higher then the index of countries well know for being dangerous. In the US, a country known for its history of homicides, it&#8217;s actually more likely to die committing suicide then killed by somebody else.<\/p>\n<p>Spain is one of the safest non Islamic countries in the world. Few homicides and few suicides. Italy, well known for its mafia and criminality, has one of the lowest homicide rates in the world. Israel has a very low Shortened Life Index as well, even if Israel is a country of immigrants coming from countries, like Russia, with high suicide and homicides rates.<\/p>\n<p>Here are graphs showing the suicide rates, the homicide rates and the Shortened Life Index for a select group of countries.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2647\" title=\"table_en\" src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/table_en.png\" alt=\"table_en\" width=\"508\" height=\"624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2009\/03\/table_en.png 508w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2009\/03\/table_en-407x500.png 407w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2009\/03\/table_en-300x368.png 300w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2009\/03\/table_en-488x600.png 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2648\" title=\"gfx_en\" src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/gfx_en.png\" alt=\"gfx_en\" width=\"492\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2009\/03\/gfx_en.png 492w, https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/files\/2009\/03\/gfx_en-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><span class=\"zem-script more-related\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=2645\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of the Alabama and German massacres of this week I asked Joaquin Mirkin of my foundation to put together for me what I call the Shortened Life Index. \u00a0This index is the addition of the murder rate and the suicide rate of a country. \u00a0Now what is interesting about this index is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}