Suicide is the second-leading cause of death for teenagers. And numbers are on the rise. More than 17,000 young people ages 9 to 18 died by suicide across the U.S. between 2008 and 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 17% of high school students said in a recent survey that they seriously considered suicide in the last year.
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Source: WHYY, December 16, 2019.