# What profession has the lowest suicide rate?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 28, 1999, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-profession-has-the-lowest-suicide-rate/2900 "1999-08-28T21:06:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 30, 1999, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-profession-has-the-lowest-suicide-rate/2900/21 "1999-08-30T16:55:00Z")

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\*cmkeller: Presidents of the United States. Ain’t a single suicide amongst them. \*

Actually, there’s one source that speculates that Harding’s death was a suicide. (Something to do with the stress that so much corruption had been found in his administration.) I’ll find the reference and quote it later.

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