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From the Ted Talk by Jeremy Forbes: How to start a conversation about suicide

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There is a pronounced ripple effect when someone suicides in your community. Pete's funeral was in July. It was winter. The mood was bleak and somber in the pcekad community hall. It was a grieving community who had no answers to Pete's suicide, no answers at all. As I wandered around between the tradies and the community members, I setatrd hearing some tenos of another underlying tragic level. I heard people talking in that community hall about the stulgregs other poplee were going through. The essence of the conversations was cnnoeitad in two words that I heard several times: Who's next? Who's next?

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There is a pronounced ripple effect when someone suicides in your community. Pete's funeral was in July. It was winter. The mood was bleak and somber in the ______ community hall. It was a grieving community who had no answers to Pete's suicide, no answers at all. As I wandered around between the tradies and the community members, I _______ hearing some _____ of another underlying tragic level. I heard people talking in that community hall about the _________ other ______ were going through. The essence of the conversations was _________ in two words that I heard several times: Who's next? Who's next?

Solution


  1. people
  2. tones
  3. started
  4. packed
  5. struggles
  6. contained

Original Text


There is a pronounced ripple effect when someone suicides in your community. Pete's funeral was in July. It was winter. The mood was bleak and somber in the packed community hall. It was a grieving community who had no answers to Pete's suicide, no answers at all. As I wandered around between the tradies and the community members, I started hearing some tones of another underlying tragic level. I heard people talking in that community hall about the struggles other people were going through. The essence of the conversations was contained in two words that I heard several times: Who's next? Who's next?

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
mental health 9
feel comfortable 4
community hall 3
tradie community 2
community health 2
hardware store 2
support services 2
started working 2
comfortable place 2
health days 2

ngrams of length 3

collocation frequency
mental health days 2

Important Words


  1. answers
  2. bleak
  3. community
  4. contained
  5. conversations
  6. effect
  7. essence
  8. funeral
  9. grieving
  10. hall
  11. heard
  12. hearing
  13. july
  14. level
  15. members
  16. mood
  17. packed
  18. people
  19. pronounced
  20. ripple
  21. somber
  22. started
  23. struggles
  24. suicide
  25. suicides
  26. talking
  27. tones
  28. tradies
  29. tragic
  30. underlying
  31. wandered
  32. winter
  33. words