The point is you're reading our strange little site. You're wasting your life, you're wasting your night, To read all the things that Matt and I say. And I wouldn't want it any other way. I am reprinting them here because once in a while Ramon and I like to back up our viewpoints with actual evidence. Every nine minutes, a teenager attempts suicide, and every 90 minutes, a teenager succeeds.
Adolescent boys are over four times more likely to succeed than are adolescent girls.
Sucide rates for African American youths of both sexes are roughly half those for white youths - with no clear explanation as to why. Zimbardo and Gerrig. With poverty rampant and unemployment high, suicide rates are boosted by family disruption, pervasive hardship, a sever number of losses through death, desertion, divorce, substance abuse, the increased mobilities of families, and the incarceration of a significant caretaker. In addition, the Native American belief that the living continuously interact with their ancestors in the spiritual world means that death holds little fear. The breakup of a close relationship is a leading traumatic incident for both sexes.