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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

Mad in America

But back in 2009-2010, the years of the first of three “suicide clusters” in Palo Alto, teen suicides across America were rarer. Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras. The numbers today truly are staggering. Nearly a dozen Palo Alto teens died this way.