Suicide In Our Society
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Once every minute someone tries to commit suicide. Sixty or seventy
times a day these attempts succeed.( Earl A. Grollman, Suicide: Prevention,
Intervention, Postvention, Boston: Beacon Press, 1988, p.4) Unlike what many
want to believe, suicide can happen to anyone regardless of race, age or s ....
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.... suicides in seven weeks. After these had
happened, the school invited parents in to discuss suicide prevention. (CTV News
11:00 p.m. January 6, 1997.) These might have been able to be prevented if
communities would assume their roles and discuss it on a regular basis and not
have suicide be a word that is whispered but never spoken.
The myth that those who talk about suicide will never actually go
through with it is completely false. Most people who do kill themselves give
some sort of c ....
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