Linking suicide to school corporal punishment, suggest that the person kills themselves soley because they were caned or paddled at school.
No, it doesn’t.
When a person suicides there is generally either one massive triggering event, or it’s a product of depressive illness (sometimes it’s both). Depressive illness generally has more than one cause in a person and all of them are relevant if they suicide.
But no single cause is solely responsible for the suicide. It’s the fact that they all build up on each other.