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Asian American young adults are the only racial group with suicide as their leading cause of death, so why is no one talking about this?

  • Written by Amelia Noor-Oshiro, Ph.D. Candidate, Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Asian American young adults are the only racial group with suicide as their leading cause of death, so why is no one talking about this?Death by suicide is the number one cause of death for young adult Asian Americans. Kelvin Murray/Getty Images

Racially motivated violence looks like the mass shootings that killed Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Chung Park, Hyun Grant and Suncha Kim in Atlanta on March 16, 2021. Racially motivated violence also looks like suicide, which is defined as a...

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