We have spoken before about the erosion of the moral prestige of intellectuals. It's not that they have become immoral (there are exceptions, of course); it's that the majority of society has stopped believing in anything transcendental, anything particularly well-argued, or anything that transcends the mediocrity of the commonplace (there are exceptions, too, now).

More and more studies and experts warn that suicide is more common among our youth. The data corroborate this: suicide has become one of the leading causes of death among young people between the ages of 15 and 29. Furthermore, almost 20% of adolescents have thought about suicide at some point in their lives, according to a report on mental health prepared by the Rey Juan Carlos University (URJC) in collaboration with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). At the same time, according to another report promoted by IDIAPJGol, cases of self-harm among children and young people between the ages of 10 and 24 have experienced an alarming increase of 267% between 2013 and 2022.

A good athlete, a straight-A student, well-liked by her family, and with friends. Apparently, there was nothing in Sandy Martos's life that could make her feel bad, but ever since she was little, she felt a nagging urge. At age 8, she remembers having the first of many suicidal thoughts that have haunted her for 25 years, although today, on International Suicide Prevention Day, she wants to be a voice of hope. "I was the typical girl who got an 8 and made a scene, because my minimum was a 10," she explains, now an activist against the stigma throughObertament entity.

The end of summer is tainted by the shadows in Port de la Selva. The unexpected death of a local couple, owners of a dozen bars, beach bars, and restaurants in the municipality, has led to the sudden closure of all their seafront businesses. The woman, 68, committed suicide last June, and the man, 71, attempted suicide a month later, leaving him seriously injured and dying at the end of August while admitted to Girona's Trueta Hospital. They had been linked to the area for almost three decades, and their establishments represented approximately 20% of the establishments in this small, whitewashed village in the Alto Empordà region, at the foot of Cap de Creus. The Café de la Marina, famous for the play of the same name by Josep Maria de Segarra, was one of the most iconic. It now has an empty terrace and a sign hanging on the door reading "temporarily closed."

A patient with a severe psychiatric disorder committed suicide on August 22 while waiting in an emergency room at the Terrassa University Hospital, sources from the Terrassa Health Consortium (CST) confirmed. The woman had been in the emergency room for two days waiting to be assigned a bed on the psychiatric ward, according to reports. The Newspaper and has been confirmed by the ARA. The CST, the consortium that manages this hospital of the Catalan Health Service (CatSalut), simply stated that the patient's death is "under analysis" by the Patient Quality and Safety Committee.

In the penultimate friendly of the preseason, last Saturday at Union Berlin's ground, Manolo González gave his debut as a blue and white player to Tyrhys Dolan (Manchester, 2001), Espanyol's latest signing and the first signing of the Alan Pace eraThe English winger has arrived at Cornellà-El Prat on a free transfer after finishing his contract with Blackburn Rovers and has signed as a parakeet until 2028.

Suicide deaths are a serious public health problem worldwide: 740,000 suicides are reported each year, or one death every 43 seconds on average. This is the conclusion of a study by researchers at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, which analyzed suicide mortality rates between 1990 and 2021 and collected data on the global burden of the disease. According to this research published this Wednesday in the journal The Lancet Public Health, Every minute, four men and six women need hospital treatment for a suicide attempt.