Life expectancy is going up, wages are going up, the birth rate is going up, and the death rate, the suicide rate, the murder rate, and the poverty rate are all going down.
The cause of the fire, which appeared to have been deliberately set, was still being investigated and detectives are still trying to determine if the deaths were possible homicides or the result of a murder-suicide, the official said.
Police have yet to declare the death a suicide or murder, but newspapers immediately speculated that it may have been linked to the fight for control of the family fortune, which has left three members killed and one missing over the last three decades.
Yet, in the wake of Belcher's murder-suicide, the nationwide discussion turned away from mental health and toward guns.
After the murder - suicide of his teammate Jovan Belcher, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Brady Quinn took the podium to address the media.
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"Sports and fair play are the very fabric of our society and youth, and the impact of match-fixing, including murder, suicide, assault and threats has the ability to undermine that very fabric, " he said.
At the Dec. 9 hearing, Gorosh argued that prosecutors cannot charge Kevorkian with both first-degree murder and assisted suicide because the charges contradict each other.
Mental health treatment has not made a dent in suicide statistics, but reducing access to the most lethal methods can drastically lower overall suicide and murder rates.
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The murder rate, to which the suicide rate tends to be related, has fallen.
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Investigators believe the deaths came from either a "murder-suicide" or a "double suicide, " he said.
Prosecutors initially charged Kevorkian with first-degree murder and assisted suicide after "60 Minutes" showed the tape of Youk's death to a nation-wide audience on Nov. 23.
In a pre-trial ruling, the judge ruled that pain and suffering evidence was relevant to assisted suicide but not murder.
Hertfordshire Police are treating the death of Mrs Kirby, 57, as murder and the death of her 72-year-old husband as suicide.
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Shortly after the killer's suicide in December, Anchorage police Detective Monique Doll described Keyes as a murder addict, saying police interviews with him showed he got "an immense amount of enjoyment" from killing.
Kevorkian was originally charged with murder, assisted suicide, and delivery of a controlled substance, but prosecutors dropped the assisted suicide charge to prevent the defense from presenting evidence about Youk's pain and suffering.
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