You can list the conditions likely to produce a lot of suicides, and you can then find places on earth which meet those conditions, and – ta-da – they’re going to have the world’s highest suicide rates. So let’s see:
- deracination, alienation, cultural identity crises
- alcoholism
- guns
- isolation
- cold weather
- macho autonomous stoic ethos
- suspicion of outside, therapeutic, government entities
- so many suicides that there’s a contagion effect
The more of these your location boasts, the more suicide we are likely to see.
And poor Greenland has them all. Here’s a long, thoughtful, piece about it.