From Beck, Hopelessness and Suicidal Behavior", Journal of the American Medical Association, 1975, at p 234:
“And it is the hopelessness that kills. University and research hospital studies show that people seem able to bear or tolerate oppression as long as there is hope that things can improve.””
From Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast, (Vintage, Oct 10, 2000), at p 86:
Of course there are often signs of precipitating crises: business failures, divorces, moral betrayals, but it is the underlying depression that undermines the ability to maintain perspective, to see God’s capacity to bring new life out of any reversal, to maintain hope, to wait for the Lord.
From Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast, (Vintage, Oct 10, 2000), at p 100:
In all the major investigations to date, 90 to 95 percent of people who committed suicide had a diagnosable psychiatric illness.
From Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast, (Vintage, Oct 10, 2000) at p 104:
But for all this complexity, most suicides share a root cause. As Jamison concludes, some type of depression is almost ubiquitous in those who kill themselves.”
From Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast, (Vintage, Oct 10, 2000), at p 73:
Each way to suicide is its own: intensely private, unknowable, and terrible… and any attempt by the living to chart this final terrain of life can be only a sketch, maddeningly incomplete.”
From Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast, (Vintage, Oct 10, 2000), at p 25:
We don’t want to condemn those who commit suicides because we have learned that psychopathology has almost always undermined a suicide’s will.
From New Canaan Advertiser, August 9, 2001:
New Canaan Advertiser report this summer that between January and June five New Canaan residents committed suicide.
2001
From Kachur, Suicide in the United States, 1980-1992:
The CDC reports that among American youngsters aged 10 to 14 suicide increased 120% between 1980 and 1992. RefMgr field[22]: 2
1997
From Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance - United States," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, (1997) at page 47:
Surveys conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the “CDC”) report astonishing numbers that defy credulity: one in ten college students surveyed said they had contemplated suicide during the previous year and nearly one in ten high school students reported actually attempting suicide.
1995
From Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance: National College Risk Behavior Survey in United States," Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, (1995) at page 45:
Suicide is now the third leading cause of death among young people in the United States and the second leading cause of death for college students.