Aside from these technical preventatives, the most fundamental point is that suicide is a warning sign and cannot be ignored. The wide disparities that exist between the suicide rates of different age brackets and different ethnic groups form a silent protest--a protest that must be heard as we consider the future distribution of resources in society. (Chang Chiung-fang / photos by Diago Chiu / tr.
然而，這些技術性的防治之外，更應深入根本﹘﹘自殺是一種不可忽視的警訊，各年齡層、各族群間，反映在自殺率上的懸殊比例，便是對社會的無言抗議，值得作為日後社會資源分配的參考指標。