Recent wave of suicides at Cornell leaves parents and students anxious

The recent wave of suicides at Cornell University has touched a nerve with parents of farflung college students they may not speak to every day, and who may balk at discussing such an unexpected and surreal topic as the death of someone their own age.

Cornell - where at least six students have reportedly taken their own life since the start of the academic year - doesn't have a higher suicide rate than other schools, according to CNN. The national average is 7.29 suicides per year for every 100,000, Paula Clayton, medical director of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, told the network

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