In Western societies today, higher suicide rates are due in part to
a) increasingly permissive attitudes toward suicide.
b) increasing criminal penalties against suicide.
c) a growing intolerance toward state-assisted suicides.
d) a decline in religious beliefs.
a) increasingly permissive attitudes toward suicide.
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