[Warning: This contribution discusses suicide]
Eriko Kobayashi was 21 when she first tried to kill herself.
¡°It felt like a weight was being lifted off my shoulders,¡± Kobayashi says, looking back 21 years to the first of her four suicide attempts. ¡°I felt that all my troubles were about to go away and I was going to be comfortable. I felt liberated.¡±
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