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I was once under the assumption that minorities, in particular black people, did not commit suicide. Last fall a girl in my class committed suicide in her dorm room. We all were shocked because none of us knew someone who had committed suicide. We were all saddened by it, but none of us made any efforts to educate our fellow students on depression and other mental illnesses that could possibly lead someone to commit suicide. The situation was kept very quiet, and the administration refused to talk about it. Eventually people forgot about her until graduation when her name was mentioned amongst the seniors who had passed.
I am very interested in hearing some of these responses. I think we just felt this was an isolated incident that would never affect us again, so we just never did anything about it.
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