>>IMO education isn't, and can't be the answer - they need exposure to danger. And no, you can't do that safely.

My challenge is to find an explanation/solution that fits with teen suicide rates, especially in boys. How many of us did silly stuff and drank/whatever too much in our youth? But we didn't expect people to die and certainly it was almost unheard of for buddies to kill themselves. But look at today's youth for whom suicide is the 3rd m ost common cause of death, behind accident and homicide. Even in the most privileged areas there are kids ending it all... some of them are scions of great families so they had everything to look forward to, and still they don't want it. Seems to me that most theories fall down in the face of that: more likely our generation has sucked something essential from their future and we're so selfish/stupid we don't even know what it is and might not even have a use for it.