Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope over Suicide

Suicide is the third leading cause of death for young Americans aged 15-24. As a teenager, DeQuincy Lezine nearly ended his own life-he believed it was the only way to end the emotional pain and misery caused by clinical depression. Instead, Lezine was able to receive expert psychiatric care, and went on to found the first campus-based chapter of the Suicide Prevention Action Network USA.

Now a researcher at the University of Rochester Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide, Lezine...