EDITORIAL | UPDATED MAY 30


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Almost everyone who commits or attempts suicide has given some clue or warning, according to Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE). David Blaine, the self-proclaimed illusionist who is compared to a young Houdini, has now given the American public five warnings.

“I’ll either succeed or the world could watch a man drown,” Blaine said in an ABC News presentation before his most recent stunt, “Drowned Alive.” During the first week of May, Blaine submerged himself in a 2,000-pound aquatic tank of saltwater in New York. [read more]