Researchers who studied three generations of mothers and their children from the community of Grassy Narrows, Ontario, have concluded that sustained exposure to the toxic metal helped cause a suicide rate three times higher than any other First Nations community – which are already far higher than among the country’s general population.

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      1 year ago

      As in they don’t usually give in to that? Thought I saw that before, that suicide was way more of an old world thing. Might have been about Amazon natives though.