French doomsday suiciders?

I was recently… I guess you’d say amused… by an article in the Australian newspaper about French pessimism and its love of Apocalypse theories. It seems that the latest prediction of Doomsday might trigger mass suicides in France.

Exactly what “mass” means in this matter is uncertain. There were 74 suicides in the late 90s by devotees of the Order of the Solar Temple, which might be seen as a tragedy, but is 0.0001% of the population of France, and is less than the number of road deaths in France *in one month*.
Indeed, there were 328 deaths on French roads in June 2010…
So, given the obvious joke about Darwin Awards and a possible record-breaking attempt, we wait to see if anything actually happens.

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