become missing
I promised to go back to China, but I didn't see it.
Zhang Shuqin, a 22-year-old female student from China, is a graduate student in the Department of Mathematical Statistics of Berkeley University.
She was originally scheduled to fly back to China on the morning of October 8th, 65438/kloc-0, and planned to do an internship, but she lost contact with her relatives and friends the day before.1October 8th did not board the plane.
It is reported that the last time my roommate saw Zhang Shuqin was around 65438+ 1 1 half past 0 on October 6th. After she went out, she didn't show up at the appointed time, so she went straight to the voice mail.
After calling the police, it was found that she was last seen in the surveillance video at 1: 50 am on the 7th, when she drove a white Mercedes across the Richmond-san rafael Bridge in East Bay, California.
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Found a Mercedes on the beach.
After Zhang Shuqin's disappearance, many relevant departments, including the National Park Service, the US Coast Guard and the Marin County Search and Rescue Team in Beiwan, dispatched helicopters and other rescue tools to conduct a large-scale search in the East Bay and Beiwan areas of San Francisco.
On October 9th, 65438/KLOC-0, the search team found Zhang Shuqin's car near the Cape Reyes Lighthouse in North Bay, and found her relics on the surrounding cliffs.
65438+1October 10, American park patrol found a 20 12 Mercedes-Benz car near the famous Cape REYES lighthouse in North Bay, San Francisco, and confirmed that the car belonged to Zhang Shuqin. Later, the police found some of her personal belongings on the cliff by the sea.
After Zhang Shuqin's disappearance, Berkeley China Students and Scholars Association and the local Chinese community in the San Francisco Bay Area forwarded the missing information.
Died in an accident
Three months later, the bones were left.
A few months later, on April 20, several hikers found obvious skeletal remains in the bay area at the bottom of a cliff, which were determined by the coroner to be human spine and sacrum. The location where the bones were found was only two miles from Zhang Shuqin's Mercedes.
On April 29th, the police found another human thigh bone on the beach not far away.
These bones were sent to the forensic laboratory. After detailed DNA testing and comparing the DNA samples provided by Zhang Shuqin's parents, the DNA testing laboratory of California Department of Justice came to a report on July 13, and determined that these remains belonged to the missing Zhang Shuqin.
The US Coast Guard reported that due to the influence of tides, Zhang Shuqin's body may have arrived at the scene of the discovery of the body on the coast of Cape Reyes from the nearby area where the car she was driving was found.
Darrell Harris, deputy chief coroner of Marin County, California, revealed that these bodies were handed over to Zhang Shuqin's family on the same day.
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The cause of death and motive are unknown.
Why did Zhang Shuqin change from a living person to a pile of bones in just three months? What happened to her before she died?
There are many speculations about the cause of Zhang Shuqin's death, one of which is that she was overwhelmed by academic pressure and depressed. According to media reports, little cute Qin failed in the fall semester exam on 20 15, which made her feel stressed. However, Berkeley has not responded so far.
According to an insider, Zhang Shuqin was depressed and behaved abnormally on the eve of her disappearance, and the police were worried that she might commit suicide.
Although it has been confirmed that Zhang Shuqin has passed away, the case is not over yet. Berkeley police said that because the remains were incomplete and moved, the cause of death and motive could not be determined at present, but no criminal acts related to Zhang Shuqin's disappearance were found, indicating that there was no suspicion of murder.
Academic emphasis
I feel my body is hollowed out!
Students who have never been abroad will feel that studying abroad is a "blessing". But in fact, after going abroad, I live under the pressure of the college entrance examination almost every day. The academic pressure of most American universities is much greater than that of domestic universities.
Although students in North America don't have the unified entrance examination like the college entrance examination, the examination homework after entering the university is much heavier than that in domestic universities. Papers, homework, quizzes, mid-term exams, and final papers. . You can't breathe. . .
The pressure on middle school students at Top50 University in the United States is even more unimaginable. Lack of sleep, always staying up late, often staying up all night in the library, has almost become the norm for students in famous schools in North America.
tense；nervous
Student suicide tragedies occur frequently!
In the United States, thousands of students suffer from depression due to excessive academic pressure, and even commit suicide.
In April this year 1 1, Olivia Kong, a 2 1 year-old Asian girl from Wharton School, was killed by a subway. The train staff said that the woman jumped into the tracks without warning. The police said that the accident was obviously a suicide.
It is reported that in the past three years, 10 college students in Fujian have chosen to commit suicide.
There is also a famous suicide bridge near Cornell University-thurston Avenue Bridge. Under the bridge is a cliff of tens of meters, and several students jump off this bridge every year.
Now the school has installed a protective net on the bridge for safety. There are also many slogans urging suicide on the bridge. For example, this sentence "asking for help" is to ask everyone to seek professional psychological counseling.
Psychologists said: "If students are in danger of suicide, we need to face up to this problem. People always think that you are smart, successful and have a high grade point, and you can handle everything, so you won't have mental illness. But in fact, I think we need to build a new culture so that everyone can dare to face up to psychological problems. "