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Suicide has recently risen to the forefront as a major social problem after numerous consecutive reports of persons claiming their own lives surfaced earlier in the year. Among the notable cases are, a second form student of the Wolmer’s Boys’ School took his own life by using his father’s gun and a UTECH student was found hanging by a tree in the community of Cooreville Gardens, St Andrew. In a recent statistic, it was noted that six persons committed suicide in the month of May.
It is highly important to note however, that the majority of the cases documented consist of male victims. In Dr Thomas’ book, Confronting Suicide: Helping Teens at Risk, a cited statistical report from the Jamaican Police Statistics Department showed that between the years of 1996-2009, 682 males committed suicide.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/teena...rn-for-Jamaica
Suicide has recently risen to the forefront as a major social problem after numerous consecutive reports of persons claiming their own lives surfaced earlier in the year. Among the notable cases are, a second form student of the Wolmer’s Boys’ School took his own life by using his father’s gun and a UTECH student was found hanging by a tree in the community of Cooreville Gardens, St Andrew. In a recent statistic, it was noted that six persons committed suicide in the month of May.
It is highly important to note however, that the majority of the cases documented consist of male victims. In Dr Thomas’ book, Confronting Suicide: Helping Teens at Risk, a cited statistical report from the Jamaican Police Statistics Department showed that between the years of 1996-2009, 682 males committed suicide.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/teena...rn-for-Jamaica