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From: mjc@cad.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: 60 Minutes' D&D Segment
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 18:16:42 EDT
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From: cbosgd!sdcrdcf!barryg@rice (Lee Gold)
>Does anyone out there know what the average US teenage suicide rate per
>million is?  I'd like to know if D&D players are higher or lower than
>average.

According to some literature that I got from a suicide prevention center
about seven years ago (ok, so it's not current, but unless there's been a
dramatic jump recently it won't matter in this case), there were about 5000
reported teen suicides in the US in a year.  There were about 35,000 reported
suicides among the general population of the US.  I'll leave it to someone
else to determine how many teenagers there are in the US.

							-Dragon
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