“I’m going to move on.” Too often teens will tell adults these words after they lose a friend to suicide. But youths often hide their true emotions from others, and may find it difficult to ...
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Youth suicide contagion
Nowhere is the influence of peer behaviors on youngsters more alarming—and life-threatening—than youth suicide, and the potential for imitative deaths that can give rise to contagion. Recent ...
A father’s suicide
Robert Becker was a Wisconsin farm boy who was educated only through middle school before he dropped out to keep the family farm afloat. A lanky kid, Robert was 6’ 9’’ by his 18th birthday. ...