Article: Suicide: A Contagious Culture.(Brief Article)

The bright innocence of youth is disappearing beneath a dark wave of teen suicides on the island of Guam.

Early this year a 12-year-old boy hanged himself with his football shoelaces after an argument with his mother. An 18-year-old student, suffering over a breakup with his girlfriend, hanged himself from a pipe in his shower. A 14-year-old girl filled notebooks with thoughts and plans for suicide months before she actually killed herself. Twenty-two teens and preteens have acted on those vows and killed themselves in the last 26 months.

Grown-ups are reeling. What can explain such a deadly epidemic?

The vortex of the epidemic is a secretive ...

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