Despite the case of the two outstanding young women students at Taipei First Girls'High School who killed themselves because they felt that they did not belong in contemporary society, in fact the suicide rate among young people in Taiwan is much lower than in Europe, the US, and Japan.
雖然前一陣子發生兩位苦於思索人生意義的北一女資優生，因自認不適合當前社會體質而自殺的事件，但根據數據，台灣青少年的自殺率的確遠低於歐美日。