Grim rise in Snohomish County youth suicides

Mary Bruno

Mary Bruno Jun 27, 2025

Feb 6, 2018

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                <h1>Grim rise in Snohomish County youth suicides</h1>
                <h2><p>According to The Everett Herald, 13 young people in the county — two of them 12-year-olds — have taken their own lives since September 2014. That's double the number of the previous year. It gets worse: When county health officials surveyed 12,000 high school and middle school students, nearly</p></h2>
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               <p>By <a href="/author/mary-bruno-crosscut-com/">Mary Bruno</a></p> 
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            <p><a href="http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20150624/NEWS01/150629672?ref=dev.cascadepbs.org">According to <em>The Everett Herald</em></a>, 13 young people in the county — two of them 12-year-olds — have taken their own lives since September 2014. That's double the number of the previous year. It gets worse: When county health officials surveyed 12,000 high school and middle school students, nearly one in five said they had seriously considered killing themselves. “The fact that you've got all these young people who feel so isolated, who really feel ... that the only resource is to kill themselves to me is just stunning,” Dr. Gary Goldbaum, of the Snohomish Health District told the <em>Herald</em>. “I don't think there's any other way to look at it than a kid who commits suicide is a real failing of society.”</p>
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According to The Everett Herald, 13 young people in the county — two of them 12-year-olds — have taken their own lives since September 2014. That's double the number of the previous year. It gets worse: When county health officials surveyed 12,000 high school and middle school students, nearly one in five said they had seriously considered killing themselves. “The fact that you've got all these young people who feel so isolated, who really feel ... that the only resource is to kill themselves to me is just stunning,” Dr. Gary Goldbaum, of the Snohomish Health District told the Herald. “I don't think there's any other way to look at it than a kid who commits suicide is a real failing of society.”

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By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,