From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!hou5b!hou5c!hou5e!mat
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Title: A different kind of virulence?
Article-I.D.: hou5e.260
Posted: Tue Mar  1 02:07:33 1983
Received: Tue Mar  1 08:02:17 1983

	     A few years ago, I had a friend who confided in some of us
	that he was severely depressed.  One of us helped him get some
	help, and I don't know where things went from there.  In speaking
	with some other people, I learned that at the High School in
	the community were I lived (not my HS .., so I don't know much abut
	the atmosphere ..) a very popular honors student had hung himself,
	successfully, about three weeks before. In the time that followed,
	there had been no less than six additional attempts, most by women/
	girls, with one probably damaged for life from an overdose of pills.
	(This info came from a community and youth officer)  Does
	anyone know anything about this kind of behavior?  Is the
	``followup suicide'' as common as I was lead to beleive it is?
	?etc?

						-hou5e!mat
						Mark Terribile