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There are about 100 non-fatal suicide attempts to every 1 suicide. A little over 14% of students in high school consider suicide and approximately 7% of them attempt suicide. Students that are bullied are around 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims. [18]
Her suicide, after suffering months of bullying from school classmates, brought international attention to the problem of bullying in US schools. In March 2010, a state anti-bullying task force was set up as a result of her death. The Massachusetts legislation was signed into law on May 3, 2010. [45]
The suicide rate for Native Americans was 19.3 per 100,000, much higher than the overall rate of 8.5 per 100,000. The suicide rate for African Americans has increased more than twofold since 1981. A national survey of high school students conducted in 1999 reported that Hispanic students are twice as likely to report attempted suicide as white ...
The issue of bullying and suicide attempts took center stage in September with the death of an eighth-grade student at Wendell Middle School from a suicide on campus. Jessica Pendergass, the 13 ...
Editor's note: There are resources for those considering suicide. 988 is the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. LGBTQ+ youth can also call the Trevor Project lifeline 24/7 at 1-866-488-7386 or ...
Students at Central Regional High School in Berkeley Township, New Jersey are mourning the loss of Adriana Kuch, a high school student who died by suicide shortly after a video of her being ...
Similarly, a suicide victim is 285% more likely to have suffered physical violence as an adult. Based on a survey done on American high school students, 16% reported considering suicide and 8% reported attempting suicide sometime within the 12 months before taking the survey. [32] Between 1980 and 1994, the suicide rates of young black males ...
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