Taipei Times
Date: Aug 02, 2015
By: Lin Hui-chin and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer
Efforts must be taken to prevent young people committing suicide like student protester Dai
Student protesters yesterday continue their sit-in at the Ministry of Education against the government’s “minor adjustments” to the high-school curriculum guidelines. Photo: Chang Chia-ming, Taipei Times
Lin (林冠華), as youths have been known to emulate suicidal events of their peers, Tri-Service General Hospital department of psychology director Yeh Chi-pin (葉啟斌) said.
Lin, a member of the Northern Taiwan Anti-Curriculum Changes Alliance, was found dead near burning charcoal early on Thursday morning, the day of his 20th birthday.
According to Yeh, Lin burned coal in an enclosed space, a method with one of the highest success rates.
“A majority of participants in the anti-curriculum changes events are youths and there exists the possibility of an emulation effect,” Taiwanese Society of Suicidology director Yang Tsung-tsai (楊聰財) said. [FULL STORY]
