The end of the world is nigh.

[sutty27]

According to this... http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/dispatches/2009/10/the_suicide_capital_of_the_world.html It doesn't seem like the happiest place on earth. Poverty, Alcoholism, high suicide rates and lots of incest...On ya way Sutty.

 

According to the link their unhappiness started when they were dragged into the modern world.

 

One reason for Greenland's high suicide rate is that people are particularly proficient at the act, employing methods that leave little chance for survival.

 

Young people in Norway and Sweden make a lot of suicide attempts with pills, but they're not successful.

 

Almost all the deaths involved people born after 1950—the same year that Greenland began its transformation from remote colony to welfare state, as the Danes resettled residents to give them modern services and tuberculosis inoculations. Hicks, the Canadian researcher, said the correlation is present in other Inuit societies as well.

 

It happened first in Alaska, then Greenland, and finally in Canada's Eastern Arctic, he told me. "It's not the people who were coerced into the communities as adults who began to exhibit elevated rates of suicidal behavior—it was their children, the first generation to grow up in the towns.

 

Researchers theorize that the brief and bright summer sun disrupts winter sleep cycles, alters serotonin levels, and causes some Greenlanders to snap, especially those in the far north.

 

Culture clash between the traditional culture and modern Western culture is also assumed to be a contributing factor.

Edited April 3, 2016 by sutty27