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Originally Posted by RaggedyAnn
I'd be curious to know if the statistics are up, or if the media is just making us more aware of the problem.
Either way it is sad.
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I wager that there has been no substantial increase (and racial and ethnic minorities have the lowest counts of suicide) but we are being made more aware of these incidents.
Also, my other post referenced a contagion effect. Even before the Internet, an increase in such incidents tended to be linked to people hearing about others committing suicide and therefore considering suicide a viable and perceivably "easy" alternative.