From Times Online
Only the bright commit suicide
Does a controversial theory linking intelligence with suicide rates help to explain why so many scientists kill themselves?
THE PAST few months have seen a series of notable suicides by scientists. Yesterday we heard details of the strange pact in which Dr Michael Griffin and his wife Adele took their lives in a Devon hotel. Two days before that, Harold Shipman killed himself. Early this month the body of Richard Stevens, a haematologist, was found in the Lake District; we await the Hutton report into the suicide of Dr David Kelly.
These are disparate cases: no one seeks to associate a mass […]