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From: nazgul@apollo.uucp (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: net.suicide,net.games.frp
Subject: Re: 60 Minutes' D&D Segment (after further research)
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Date: Wed, 2-Oct-85 17:13:29 EDT
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I don't have any figures for suicides (my father works in that area and I
would ask him, but he's on vacation) but I would say that 12.3 per 100,000
is definitely low.  The problem is that teenage suicides have been increasing
dramatically in the past decade, so a figure from 1961 to 1981 is not
a good reflection of what is happening currently.  The only thing I know
is that people have been refering to it as being of 'epidemic' proportions.


                                                -kee
                                                ...decvax!wanginst!apollo!nazgul


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