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...apartments are in blocks in Peabody Terrace, 8-10 Mt. Auburn St. and the Botanical Gardens, and a Harvard tutor will live in each cluster...
More immediately worrisome to parents in comfortable, middle-class Bergenfield (pop. 25,600) is what psychologists call the cluster effect. "After a suicide, there is always an increase" in copycat deaths, says Herbert Nieburg, a psychologist in nearby Westchester County, N.Y., where six boys from the area killed themselves in separate incidents over a four-month period in 1984. The impulse to imitate a suicide can be powerful, especially among adolescents, who tend to romanticize adventure and recklessness. "Kids see that this is a glamorous way to die, a way to get a lot of attention that they couldn...
...fact, their deaths may have been part of an unacknowledged suicide cluster in Bergenfield. The death of Joe Major -- a leader among the fringe students at Bergenfield High, who self-mockingly call themselves burnouts -- deeply affected his circle of friends. Major's was only one of four suspicious deaths among Bergenfield youths in the nine months before last week's quadruple suicide. Two other young men were hit by trains, and another acquaintance walked into a pond and drowned. All the previous deaths were alcohol related...
...cluster warning signals, like other indications of suicidal tendencies, can often be ignored by parents, peers and teachers. "Everybody is in such a rush that we don't take the time to listen to our youngsters," says Elaine Leader, co-founder of a teen crisis hotline at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In cases of cluster suicides, notes Charlotte Ross, executive director of the Youth Suicide National Center, "people grossly underestimate the grief reaction" of adolescents to the deaths of their friends. Lisa Burress, for example, had dated Joe Major for six months before his death...
...teen cluster suicides have devastated communities across the country in recent years, school systems have set up counseling networks, including suicide-prevention training for teachers and students, suicide hotlines and community- and parent-awareness programs to help identify and deter potential victims. But problem kids often ignore offers of help. Although Bergenfield prides itself on the number of youth-support programs operating in the school district, many students did not seem to be aware of them...