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College suicide: Second-leading cause of student death hits home in Southwest Florida

Naples, Fla., Daily News

January 1, 2012

While older people are significantly more likely than college students to take their own lives, suicide is the second-leading cause of death among college students, after car accidents. By comparison, suicide is the ninth most common cause of death among the general U.S. population. Their deaths vex parents and friends, who often struggle with the warning signs they may have missed, or that, just as often, the victims worked hard to conceal.

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