The young man who jumped to his death yesterday from the Empire State Building in Manhattan was Cameron Dabaghi, a Yale student. That makes him a member of that high-profile suicide phenomenon taking place on college campuses such as NYU and Cornell.
A few years ago I researched and published an article on the so-called "Fragile Generation" in college Download 0611_FRAGILEGEN. The emotional vulnerability characteristic of the Millennials seemed a result of both helicopter parenting and the advent of drugs which allows the mentally ill to function well enough to matriculate at college.
But that's only an attempt, and probably a feeble one, to explain why young people are checking out. Is it that, as we know, suicide is socially contagious and students come to see this extreme measure as a solution to their challenges?
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