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Why predicting suicide is a difficult and complex challenge

  • Written by Joseph Franklin, Assistant professor of Psychology, Florida State University
Anthony Bourdain, left, and Kate Spade, right. The Conversation with images from PeabodyAwards/flickr, CC BY-SA

Who is going to die by suicide? This terrible mystery of human behavior takes on particular poignance in the wake of suicides by high-profile and much-beloved celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain. It is only natural that people...

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