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an NFSA website

Rites of Passage (1994)

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clip Suicide education content clip 2

This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

A teenage girl talks about how her feelings of extreme depression led her to contemplate suicide, and her parents talk about their reactions to discovering this.

Curator’s notes

The director has captured a particularly articulate statement from the teen girl about her depression and suicidal thoughts, and also how her parents reacted to this.