I was reading this article about Jet Li in the Orlando Sentinel and this section jumped out at me.
Li has donated money to the Chinese Red Cross and has spoken to
teenagers in his native country to encourage them to find honor in
themselves. He has been horrified over the number of suicides in the
country by young people, which in 2003 numbered about 280,000.The actor says young Chinese have given up hope because
“everything is too good. With a single child in the home, they are
spoiled when they are little. The mother and the father give things to
them. The economy is better and better. As teenagers, they don't know
how to handle their lives. I want to tell them to be strong. Life is
not easy. I wrote a special line in the film, 'I cannot choose when I
am born, but with courage I go to the end.' “
280,000 suicides in one year?
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