Ironically, the NY Times ran a serious article on this same subject--with essentially the same conclusion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/health/04mind.html

The Onion's articles are usually too well summarized by the title to be worth reading. This one had more to say...not much, but worth reading if you were going to read the new york times style section instead.

This should be a boon for Despair, Inc. http://despair.com/