>>>IMO education isn't, and can't be the answer - they need exposure to danger. And no, you can't do that safely.
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>My challenge is to find an explanation/solution that explains 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 and even in the most privileged areas there are kids ending it all... some of them are scions of great families so their future success was all but assured, 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.

Have teen suicide rates truly increased? Remember, for many years reporting of suicides (in media) was actively suppressed for fear of copycats. I don't know if that would have any effect on compiled statistics of official cause of death e.g. social pressure to have the death certificate say "accidental drowning" rather than suicide by leaping off the river bridge.

These days, memorial pages go up on Facebook in literally seconds, for worldwide consumption. Maybe the copycat fears are real.