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shenmue

(38,506 posts) Tue Sep 1, 2015, 07:57 PM Sep 2015

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Japan: start of school highest time for youth suicides

BBC story here

Warning: some may find the content of the article disturbing.

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Japan: start of school highest time for youth suicides (Original Post) shenmue Sep 2015 OP

the culture has a different attitude toward suicide than ours elehhhhna Sep 2015 #1

fyi the fastest growing group of us suicides is among AA children of school age. elehhhhna Sep 2015 #2

elehhhhna

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1. the culture has a different attitude toward suicide than ours

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 08:42 PM

Sep 2015

Which doesn't help the matter.

elehhhhna

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2. fyi the fastest growing group of us suicides is among AA children of school age.

Reply to elehhhhna (Reply #1)

Tue Sep 1, 2015, 08:45 PM

Sep 2015

And I mean young here. It's epidemic with teens in general.

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