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Are suicide rates among millenials increasing?
Simon Sinek claims in this video (at about 9:40min) that the suicide rates and the accidental drug overdoses among young people from the so-called "millennial" generation are increasing at the moment. Is that true? Are there reliable statistics…
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Did a suicidal woman talk a police officer into jumping with her?
Right now, memes featuring a supposed news paper article stating "SUICIDE WOMAN TALKS COP INTO JUMPING WITH HER!" are going around. For example:
More examples (not displayed as images to save space, original URLs credited, but some linked to SE…
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Was Kurt Cobain listening to R.E.M.'s Everybody Hurts when he killed himself?
Kumail Nanjiani on why he hates R.E.M.’s “Everybody Hurts”
The above article on the A.V. Club website makes the following claim:
This might not be true, but the legend is that this is the song that Kurt Cobain had cued up in his CD player when he…
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