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Men only: Why men are now at high risk of suicide

Men’s self-worth is tied to their titles or jobs or ‘net worth,’ when the net is pulled away and they fall down (Shutterstock)

A month ago, we had our fifth death from our college class of less than two decades ago.

It was a class of just a hundred undergrads, so as we explore the lower levels of the fourth floor, five percent of us have checked out from this journey of life. Which would be okay if those deaths were all natural, say from accidents or corona-like viruses, because at least we’d be able to say that such is life, and ‘you never know the day or the hour’, etc.

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