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Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries[1] have much higher rates of suicide than the rest of the population.

But on the flip side, some professions have very low rates of suicide. One of them is education. National and state data shows that educators in the U.S., including teachers, professors and librarians, are among the least likely...

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