Ever since I wanted to become a dentist decades ago, people have told me that dentists have the highest suicide rate. I love my profession and my life and do not have any suicidal thoughts. I have since learned that there may have been a study supporting that thesis, but that it was a very small and flawed study, and that actually suicide rates among dentists are similar to suicide rates among other professionals.

Now the CDC has released a study showing that farmers, lumberjacks, and fisherman have the highest suicide rates. From CBS news: Dentists, doctors and other health-care professionals had an 80 percent lower suicide rate than the farmers, fishermen and lumberjacks.