one of the major ragedies of our time is the high incidence of States e in the United ast year for which statistics are available, 3 years of age. Among young killed themselves, including 5 twenty-five people, suicides follow accidents as the leading cause of death, although n certain segments of the young second from homicide and adult population deaths HIV/AIDS now exceed those of accidents and suicide. Source: Adapted from wayne Payne and Dale Hahn, Understanding your Heanh, 5th ed., p. 40, McGraw-Hill. Reprinted by permission of The McGraw-Hill Companies. 1998