Hearing him say it would be bad enough; having people come to their town and accost them and look for proof is a whole new level of horror.

Wait, Sweden doesn't exist?

Always and forever: https://xkcd.com/282/

I'm unfamiliar with both of those, yikes. Thanks for the recommendation, Greene!

Dun dun DUN

I didn't jump. I took a step, and there conclusions were.
Buffy quotes aside (a show that dealt with both bullying and suicide with a deft hand, btw)…
I spoke based on the showrunners comments. I did so politely, based on roughly 13 years of my own experience. If my conclusions had been incorrect, the commenters here…

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It sounds so damn cheesy but I don't know what else to say: I hope you get to a better place. I'll repost the numbers again, and if you ever need to talk, you'd be surprised how many people have just started talking on this here AVClub and gotten some pretty good responses.
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Just reposted from Toaster downthread. Hope you don't need them, but I'm glad you have them.

Fun fact: od-ing is a horrible way to go! Doctors are way more stubborn than you are, and they take suicide as a challenge.

Crisis Text Line: 741 741 (text start or go)
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
Or talk here, since clearly we're a bunch of people with nothing else to do on a holiday evening. If you wanna.

Aw. *blushes* Thank you! I hope you had a lovely holiday of your choosing/secular chocolate feast.

It's a cliche by now that parents don't understand, but they really don't. Parents and children never seem to quite "get" each other, but the gulf between the social media generation and their parents just seems like it's gotten too damn wide.
On the plus side, that conversation with my mom did seem to get through a…

If Netflix is going to start doing adaptations of Serious YA Books On Serious Topics, they should do Speak, which was outstanding.

The more I hear about this, the more I expect a few news stories about kids leaving behind tapes in the next 2-3 weeks.

And whoops, suicide epidemiology is mostly who kills themselves; suicide clusters is the google search you want if you want to be sad!

I'm glad you didn't.

And I responded to your use of Kurt Cobain's death, which I characterized as an outlier in many years of research. I then responded to the rest of your comment. You don't have to look at "every bit" of research, but you could google "suicide epidemiology."

It's not silly. What gets a person through is what gets a person through. Most people assume their family won't care much, but this guy held onto the idea that they would. Not silly at all.
My usual "thing" is that I think my dog would be sad.

Silicon Valley is a cluster spot to the point that epidemiologists are going there trying to figure out why (hello, recent immigrant parents + high pressure schools + the constant spectre of social media = death).