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04-12-2016, 12:25 AM
In just 24 hours, 11 people in a Canadian indige**us nation tried to commit suicide
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Leaders of an indige**us nation in Canada declared a state of emergency on Saturday, after 11 people in their nation of 2,000 tried to commit suicide within 24 hours.*
That number amounts to 0.55% of their population trying to kill themselves in a single day.
SEE ALSO: Tracy Morgan contemplated suicide after traumatic car wreck (http://mashable.com/2016/03/25/tracy-morgan-interview-car-crash/)
The Attawapiskat First Nation has reportedly been dealing with a rash of suicide attempts (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473784919/canadian-first-nation-declares-state-of-emergency-over-suicide-attempts) for some time.*
There were 28 suicide attempts in March, and 101 people from 11 to 71 years old have tried to end their own lives since September. Just one person has died.
Statistics on healthcare and employment in the*Attawapiskat First Nation are brutal.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/11/indige**us-nation-canada-suicide-state-of-emergency/)
More about Cree (http://mashable.com/category/cree/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Attawapiskat First Nation (http://mashable.com/category/attawapiskat-first-nation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Suicide (http://mashable.com/category/suicide/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Canada (http://mashable.com/category/canada/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Indige**us (http://mashable.com/category/indige**us/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/2eBWN2UO0dY
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Leaders of an indige**us nation in Canada declared a state of emergency on Saturday, after 11 people in their nation of 2,000 tried to commit suicide within 24 hours.*
That number amounts to 0.55% of their population trying to kill themselves in a single day.
SEE ALSO: Tracy Morgan contemplated suicide after traumatic car wreck (http://mashable.com/2016/03/25/tracy-morgan-interview-car-crash/)
The Attawapiskat First Nation has reportedly been dealing with a rash of suicide attempts (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/11/473784919/canadian-first-nation-declares-state-of-emergency-over-suicide-attempts) for some time.*
There were 28 suicide attempts in March, and 101 people from 11 to 71 years old have tried to end their own lives since September. Just one person has died.
Statistics on healthcare and employment in the*Attawapiskat First Nation are brutal.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/11/indige**us-nation-canada-suicide-state-of-emergency/)
More about Cree (http://mashable.com/category/cree/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Attawapiskat First Nation (http://mashable.com/category/attawapiskat-first-nation/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Suicide (http://mashable.com/category/suicide/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Canada (http://mashable.com/category/canada/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and Indige**us (http://mashable.com/category/indige**us/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/2eBWN2UO0dY