Generally, many studies on serious organic diseases are conducted from an oncology perspective. In adolescents and young adults, an increased risk of suicide has been described during the first year after diagnosis. It is also true that, as with all identified risk factors, the predictive power is very poor, but the relationship does seem evident.

In our daily practice, we have attended to some boys who we knew had chronic illnesses, and that, in some way, that could have conditioned the general scenario, but even in those few cases, I do not remember any who gave this problem as the main reason for their detachment from life.