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Suicide rate is slowly rising
The decision to take one's own life is both excruciatingly personal and impersonally demographical. Someone who is in a deep depression may reach a point of hopelessness at the same moment he happens to pass by a bridge, leading to an impulsive, tragic decision that even he may not have foreseen.
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