For everyone who seems to think this was a good idea for a classroom assignment, you should know it's a fairly well studied fact that publicizing suicides and such tends to cause more suicides. It's all good to be edgy as a teacher and get kids to think about mature subjects, but just not with this particular topic. More exposure to the topic basically seems to cause more suicides.
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"Hearing about a suicide seems to make those who are vulnerable feel they have permission to do it," Dr. Phillips said
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werther_effect