... such as the Story of Elizabeth Shin, it will be hidden at all costs: "It wasn't a news story in Westmoreland County. The community newspaper treated it delicately with a routine $5-a-line obituary; only Nathan's age would have caught a reader's attention. But two weeks after he died, his mother ... decided to go public with her son's story, testifying before a House committee in Harrisburg" (Post Gazette 2000). The suicide is a secret, a shame; no one wants to read on the front page of the newspaper that a person could function in ... life so severely that they killed themselves. Kay Re...

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