According to media reports, there are as many as seven or eight suicide cases per day in Taiwan. Moreover, some parents go a step further and also murder their own innocent, young children before they commit suicide themselves.
Some people tie their children onto their bodies and jump into the sea together.
Some first poison their children before taking poison to kill themselves, and some push their children off a high building before leaping to their deaths. These cases have resulted in many tragedies. Apart from a few young children and callow teenagers, who kill themselves out of ignorance or curiosity by imitating adults, and those who momentarily take some minor matter to heart and step onto the road of no return, behind the vast majority of suicides there are tragic stories that deserve our sympathy and help. First we must understand the reasons behind suicide, and only then can we provide an effective helping hand. Some youths commit suicide because of heavy pressure from schoolwork or test scores that are less than ideal.