Child Suicide is Becoming an ‘International Epidemic’ Amid Restricted Pandemic Life, Doctors Warn

We are very surprised by the intensity of the desire to die among children who may be 12 or 13 years old," a French doctor told the Associated Press. We sometimes have children of 9 who already want to die. And it's not simply a provocation or a blackmail via suicide. It is a genuine wish to end their lives."