Associate researcher Cheng Tai-an of the Academia Sinica Institute of Biomedical Science conducted a four-year study into suicide in the east coast region of Taiwan, where he found an alarming suicide rate of 24 per 100,000; 97 % of those who killed themselves were suffering psychiatric illness, most commonly depression and alcoholism.
中央研究院生物醫學科學研究所副研究員鄭泰安，在花東地區做過長達四年的自殺研究，結果相當驚人。根據他的研究，花東地區的自殺率高達十萬分之二十四；自殺死亡者罹患精神疾病的比例高達百分之九十七，其中以憂鬱症、酗酒的比例最高。