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

Mad in America

Then, finally, technology offered a solution: insurmountably high fences and surveillance cameras. The suicides seemed to trigger a general darkening in the mood at the schools. Nearly a dozen Palo Alto teens died this way. Finally, the City of Palo Alto put a security guard there. It was terrible when the kids died.