EDITORIAL We are spending more on suicide prevention than ever before yet suicide rates are their highest in more than a decade. Why? We mourn each and every life lost in this devastating way, but the 50 per cent rise in the suicide rate of young women aged 15-24 is particularly troubling, not least because it is so little understood. The rate is increasing even among girls under 14, whose suicide numbers now exceed those of males in their age group. True, the increase in the population suicide rate reported by the Bureau of Statistics of 12 per 100,000 people for 2014 – the highest level since 2001 – might partly reflect...
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