Quote:Also, intelligent people are more likely to commit suicide than less intelligent people (Emile Durkheim, Suicide, 1897) (intelligent people and atheists are more likely to commit suicide, ergo atheists are more intelligent? supported by other studies too Thinking). However, this study may have overlooked the crucial difference in religious belief, as protestants have ~300% higher suicide rates than catholics (Emile Durkheim, Suicide, 1897) therefore a higher sample concentration of catholics would skew data.
Both studies are some 100+ years out of date.
Religiously unaffiliated subjects are more prone to depressive disorders in general, so its not merely a case of being "more successful at suicide":
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10480747
Though there are religiously affiliated atheists so .
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